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title: Wen eh git day eh call eh wife an eh show um de tief wuh bin tek eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh git day eh call eh wife an eh show um de tief wuh bin tek eh fish. 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 27

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Wen eh git day eh call eh wife an eh show um de tief wuh bin tek eh fish.

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**What happens:** call · **To what, where:** wife · **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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg76586:10:27
# text = Wen eh git day eh call eh wife an eh show um de tief wuh bin tek eh fish.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
3	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
14	tief	tief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
15	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
16	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present |  |  | eh wife |  | day | a eh show um and tief eh fish *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient |

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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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