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title: Eh tek eh fiddle an eh gone ter de ribber bank, an eh play er funny… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh tek eh fiddle an eh gone ter de ribber bank, an eh play er funny chune, an eh sing er funny song. Who acts: Eh tek eh, ter, eh play, eh sing. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 26

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Eh tek eh fiddle an eh gone ter de ribber bank, an eh play er funny chune, an eh sing er funny song.

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**Who acts:** Eh tek eh, ter, eh play, eh sing · **What happens:** fiddle, go, bank, chune, song · **To what, where:** eh

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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 tek eh, ter, eh play, eh sing), 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:pg76586:11:26
# text = Eh tek eh fiddle an eh gone ter de ribber bank, an eh play er funny chune, an eh sing er funny song.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fiddle	fiddle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	nsubj	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
10	ribber	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	chune	chune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fiddle** | infinitive | Eh tek eh | a eh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | participle |  | a eh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bank** |  | ter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **chune** |  | a eh play |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **song** |  | a eh sing |  |  |  |  |  | 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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