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title: Eh duh half cry, an eh say to isself: “Nummine, wen dis rain ober me… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh duh half cry, an eh say to isself: “Nummine, wen dis rain ober me guine buil house right off. Who acts: eh, Nummine. 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 216

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Eh duh half cry, an eh say to isself: “Nummine, wen dis rain ober me guine buil house right off.

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**Who acts:** eh, Nummine · **What happens:** say, ober · **To what, where:** half cry, isself, eh · **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, Nummine), 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:pg76586:1:216
# text = Eh duh half cry, an eh say to isself: “Nummine, wen dis rain ober me guine buil house right off.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	4	compound	_	_
4	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	isself	isself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Nummine	Nummine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	ober	ober	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	guine	guine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	buil	buil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	right	right	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	off	off	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a eh | half cry  Eh *not said here* | isself |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cry=Topic to isself=Recipient |
| 2 | **ober** *in a quote* | infinitive | Nummine | a eh *= eh* |  |  |  | guine buil house *obj*; off *property* | tree rules |

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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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