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title: Me hab plenty er bittle fuh eat. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me hab plenty er bittle fuh eat. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 149

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Me hab plenty er bittle fuh eat.

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**What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** hab plenty

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This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:1:149
# text = Me hab plenty er bittle fuh eat.
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	compound	_	_
2	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	er	er	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	3	appos	_	_
5	bittle	bittle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	appos	_	_
6	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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