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title: De same ebenin eh mek Tar Baby, an eh gone an set um right in de mid… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De same ebenin eh mek Tar Baby, an eh gone an set um right in de middle er de trail wuh lead to de spring, an dist in front er de spring. Who acts: eh, er wuh lead. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1, with its dependen
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 277

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De same ebenin eh mek Tar Baby, an eh gone an set um right in de middle er de trail wuh lead to de spring, an dist in front er de spring.

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**Who acts:** eh, er wuh lead · **What happens:** go, lead, de · **To what, where:** set um, same ebenin eh

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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, er wuh lead), 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:pg76586:1:277
# text = De same ebenin eh mek Tar Baby, an eh gone an set um right in de middle er de trail wuh lead to de spring, an dist in front er de spring.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	ebenin	ebenin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	Tar	Tar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	Baby	Baby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
11	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	right	right	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	flat:foreign	_	_
21	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	wuh	wuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	de	de	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	dist	dist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	de	de	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | participle | a eh *not said here* | a set um |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location um=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** |  | a eh |  |  |  |  | a dist in front er de spring *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **de** | infinitive | er wuh lead and a dist in front er de spring *not said here* |  |  |  | spring |  | 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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