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title: Eh all fuh ehself; an ef you listne ter him tale, eh gwine cheat you… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh all fuh ehself; an ef you listne ter him tale, eh gwine cheat you ebry time, an tell de bigges lie dout wink eh yeye. Who acts: bigges, dout. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 21

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Eh all fuh ehself; an ef you listne ter him tale, eh gwine cheat you ebry time, an tell de bigges lie dout wink eh yeye.

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**Who acts:** bigges, dout · **What happens:** lie, wink · **To what, where:** ef tale, yeye

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bigges, dout), 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:pg76586:12:21
# text = Eh all fuh ehself; an ef you listne ter him tale, eh gwine cheat you ebry time, an tell de bigges lie dout wink eh yeye.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	vocative	_	_
3	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
4	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	listne	listne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	conj	_	_
10	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
12	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
15	gwine	gwine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cheat	cheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	ebry	ebry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	flat:foreign	_	_
24	bigges	bigge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	dout	dout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	wink	wink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
28	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | bigges | ef tale |  |  |  | a tell *obl* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wink** | present | dout | yeye |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yeye=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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