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title: Eh say to isself: “I guine mek Buh Alligatur know wuh call trouble d… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh say to isself: “I guine mek Buh Alligatur know wuh call trouble dis day.” Who acts: Eh, guine mek. 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 167

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Eh say to isself: “I guine mek Buh Alligatur know wuh call trouble dis day.”

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**Who acts:** Eh, guine mek · **What happens:** say, know, call · **To what, where:** isself · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (Eh, guine mek), 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:pg76586:1:167
# text = Eh say to isself: “I guine mek Buh Alligatur know wuh call trouble dis day.”
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	isself	isself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	guine	guine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
15	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Eh |  | isself |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to isself=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | guine mek  I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **call** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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