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title: Soon es eh done eat um, eh cry out an eh say eh hab pain er belly, a… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon es eh done eat um, eh cry out an eh say eh hab pain er belly, an eh double ehself all up, an eh roll eh yeye, an eh waller all long de groun, an eh mek all sorter curous motion an noise. Who acts: hab. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 42

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Soon es eh done eat um, eh cry out an eh say eh hab pain er belly, an eh double ehself all up, an eh roll eh yeye, an eh waller all long de groun, an eh mek all sorter curous motion an noise.

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**Who acts:** hab · **What happens:** do, eat, cry out, say, belly · **To what, where:** Soon es, um, eh · **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: who acts (hab), 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:pg76586:10:42
# text = Soon es eh done eat um, eh cry out an eh say eh hab pain er belly, an eh double ehself all up, an eh roll eh yeye, an eh waller all long de groun, an eh mek all sorter curous motion an noise.
1	Soon	soon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
6	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	cry	cry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
15	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
23	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	waller	waller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
36	all	all	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	long	long	ADJ	RB	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	39	compound	_	_
39	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	mek	mek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
44	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	det	_	_
45	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
46	curous	curous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	motion	motion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	_
48	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle · passive |  | Soon es |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | infinitive |  | um |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | infinitive |  | a eh |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eh=Topic |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **belly** |  | hab |  |  |  |  | a eh *conj*; a eh eh yeye and a eh mek *conj* | 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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