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title: Eh holler back ter him wife an eh say: “Ole ooman! — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh holler back ter him wife an eh say: “Ole ooman! Who acts: wife. 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 80

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Eh holler back ter him wife an eh say: “Ole ooman!

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** Ole ooman · **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 (wife), 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:pg76586:12:80
# text = Eh holler back ter him wife an eh say: “Ole ooman!
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ooman	ooman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Eh holler ter Buh's wife | Ole ooman |  |  |  | a eh *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ooman=Topic |

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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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