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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 90

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Eh gone an eh heng up eh fiddle, an eh say teh ehself: “Me tought sho me bin hab um, but Rabbit beat my time.”

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**Who acts:** Eh, Rabbit · **What happens:** go up, say, tought, bin, beat · **To what, where:** eh heng, hab um · **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 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, Rabbit), 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:pg76586:11:90
# text = Eh gone an eh heng up eh fiddle, an eh say teh ehself: “Me tought sho me bin hab um, but Rabbit beat my time.”
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gone	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	heng	heng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
7	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
13	teh	teh	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	tought	tought	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	sho	sho	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
22	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | Eh | a eh heng |  |  |  | eh fiddle *obl:unmarked* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient heng=Extent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a eh |  |  |  |  | teh ehself | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tought** *in a quote* | past | a eh *= eh* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | a eh *= eh* | hab um |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent um=Theme |
| 5 | **beat** *in a quote* | past | Rabbit |  |  |  | time |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

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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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