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title: Eh bring um een a nice glass tumbler, an eh gen me fuh drink. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh bring um een a nice glass tumbler, an eh gen me fuh drink. Who acts: you, eh gen. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14, 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 14, sentence 128

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Eh bring um een a nice glass tumbler, an eh gen me fuh drink.

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**Who acts:** you, eh gen · **What happens:** bring, drink · **To what, where:** um

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, eh gen), 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:pg76586:14:128
# text = Eh bring um een a nice glass tumbler, an eh gen me fuh drink.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tumbler	tumbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* | um |  |  |  | a nice glass tumbler and fuh drink *obj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent um=Destination tumbler=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** |  | a eh gen |  |  |  |  | me *nsubj* | 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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