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title: Eh jis is bex wid um is eh kin be. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh jis is bex wid um is eh kin be. Who acts: Eh jis. 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 199

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Eh jis is bex wid um is eh kin be.

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**Who acts:** Eh jis · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** bex wid um, eh kin

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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 jis), 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:pg76586:1:199
# text = Eh jis is bex wid um is eh kin be.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	jis	jis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	bex	bex	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	csubj	_	_
10	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Eh jis | bex wid um |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | eh kin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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