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title: Eh fret so bout um tel eh biggin fuh tun rale po. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh fret so bout um tel eh biggin fuh tun rale po. Who acts: bout eh biggin. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, 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 10, sentence 117

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Eh fret so bout um tel eh biggin fuh tun rale po.

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**Who acts:** bout eh biggin · **What happens:** po · **To what, where:** Eh fret

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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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bout eh biggin), 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:pg76586:10:117
# text = Eh fret so bout um tel eh biggin fuh tun rale po.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fret	fret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
4	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
5	um	um	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	biggin	biggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	rale	rale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	po	po	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **po** |  | bout eh biggin | Eh fret *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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