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title: Eh tek some salt outer him bag, an eh buil fire, an eh brile some er… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh tek some salt outer him bag, an eh buil fire, an eh brile some er de yearlin meat on de coals, an eh eat um right befo Buh Wolf. Who acts: er. 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 pr
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 41

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Eh tek some salt outer him bag, an eh buil fire, an eh brile some er de yearlin meat on de coals, an eh eat um right befo Buh Wolf.

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**Who acts:** er · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** right, outer bag

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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 (er), 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:pg76586:10:41
# text = Eh tek some salt outer him bag, an eh buil fire, an eh brile some er de yearlin meat on de coals, an eh eat um right befo Buh Wolf.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
7	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	buil	buil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	brile	brile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	advmod	_	_
20	yearlin	yearlin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
28	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
29	um	um	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obj	_	_
31	befo	befo	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | some er  yearlin meat on de coals and a eh | right befo Buh Wolf |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |

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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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