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title: Eh lay isself out ter eh berry lenk, but befo eh ketch de nex mile p… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh lay isself out ter eh berry lenk, but befo eh ketch de nex mile pose eh meet Buh Cooter in de road dis a passin er dat pose. Who acts: Eh, eh ketch. 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 t
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 247

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Eh lay isself out ter eh berry lenk, but befo eh ketch de nex mile pose eh meet Buh Cooter in de road dis a passin er dat pose.

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**Who acts:** Eh, eh ketch · **What happens:** lie out, pose, meet · **To what, where:** isself, Buh Cooter, de road dis

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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, eh ketch), 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:pg76586:1:247
# text = Eh lay isself out ter eh berry lenk, but befo eh ketch de nex mile pose eh meet Buh Cooter in de road dis a passin er dat pose.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	isself	isself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	lenk	lenk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	befo	befo	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
15	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	orphan	_	_
17	pose	pose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	passin	passin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
29	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	pose	pose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie out** | past | Eh | isself |  |  |  | ter eh berry lenk | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location isself=Theme |
| 2 | **pose** | present | eh ketch  nex mile |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **meet** | infinitive | eh ketch  nex mile *not said here* | Buh Cooter |  | de road dis and a passin  dat pose |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cooter=Co-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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