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title: Eh want fuh keep eh trone: so eh gen order teh eh head man fuh mek h… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh want fuh keep eh trone: so eh gen order teh eh head man fuh mek him soldier kill all de ole people een de nation, so de noung King shant hab no wise pusson fuh help um cahr on de bidness er de kingdom. Who acts: Eh, eh gen order, wise pusson fuh, King shant hab. A sentence of «Negro myths from th
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 49

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Eh want fuh keep eh trone: so eh gen order teh eh head man fuh mek him soldier kill all de ole people een de nation, so de noung King shant hab no wise pusson fuh help um cahr on de bidness er de kingdom.

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**Who acts:** Eh, eh gen order, wise pusson fuh, King shant hab · **What happens:** want, keep, kill, help, um · **To what, where:** trone, de ole people, King shant hab, cahr, de bidness

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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 (Eh, eh gen order, wise pusson fuh, King shant hab), 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:pg76586:12:49
# text = Eh want fuh keep eh trone: so eh gen order teh eh head man fuh mek him soldier kill all de ole people een de nation, so de noung King shant hab no wise pusson fuh help um cahr on de bidness er de kingdom.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trone	trone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
12	teh	teh	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
17	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
19	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
25	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	amod	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	flat	_	_
27	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	parataxis	_	_
31	noung	noung	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	shant	shant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	38	det	_	_
36	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	pusson	pusson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
40	um	um	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
41	cahr	cahr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	44	compound	_	_
44	bidness	bidness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	er	er	X	FW	_	47	compound	_	_
46	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	45	flat:foreign	_	_
47	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** *not said to happen* | infinitive | Eh *not said here* | eh trone |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trone=Theme |
| 3 | **kill** | present | eh gen order teh head man | de ole people |  |  |  | mek soldier *nsubj*; een nation *conj* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | present | no wise pusson fuh | King shant hab *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent hab=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **um** | infinitive | King shant hab *not said here* | cahr |  | de bidness and er kingdom |  |  | 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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