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title: Fuh some time eh yent yeddy no answer; an den de answer come back te… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fuh some time eh yent yeddy no answer; an den de answer come back ter um one by one from all ober de pon, an een er deep woice: “Yent der me. Who acts: eh, een. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, with its dependency 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 150

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Fuh some time eh yent yeddy no answer; an den de answer come back ter um one by one from all ober de pon, an een er deep woice: “Yent der me.

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**Who acts:** eh, een · **What happens:** come back, woice · **To what, where:** ober de pon

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eh, een), 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:pg76586:11:150
# text = Fuh some time eh yent yeddy no answer; an den de answer come back ter um one by one from all ober de pon, an een er deep woice: “Yent der me.
1	Fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	eh	eh	X	GW	_	14	nsubj	_	_
5	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
23	ober	ober	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	compound	_	_
25	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
30	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	woice	woice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
35	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	_
36	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | present | eh  some time |  |  | all ober de pon and deep woice and Yent |  | ter um; a de answer *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from pon=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **woice** |  | a een |  |  |  |  |  | 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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