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title: Eh know better den all dem tarruh people wuffer do long fiddle. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh know better den all dem tarruh people wuffer do long fiddle. Who acts: you, people wuffer. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 25

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Eh know better den all dem tarruh people wuffer do long fiddle.

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**Who acts:** you, people wuffer · **What happens:** know, do · **To what, where:** better den, long fiddle · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, people wuffer), 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:pg76586:12:25
# text = Eh know better den all dem tarruh people wuffer do long fiddle.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
6	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	compound	_	_
9	wuffer	wuffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **know** | imperative | you *not said here* | better den |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | all people wuffer | long fiddle |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=Eventuality |

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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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