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title: Eh tell me fuh drink um down, an wen me drink all outer de glass, an… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh tell me fuh drink um down, an wen me drink all outer de glass, an me yeye ketch sight er de bottom er de tumbler, me see some speck. Who acts: you, wen, me. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14, with its dependency t
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 130

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Eh tell me fuh drink um down, an wen me drink all outer de glass, an me yeye ketch sight er de bottom er de tumbler, me see some speck.

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**Who acts:** you, wen, me · **What happens:** tell, drink down, drink, sight, see · **To what, where:** wen, me, um, outer de glass, de bottom, speck · **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 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, wen, me), 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:pg76586:14:130
# text = Eh tell me fuh drink um down, an wen me drink all outer de glass, an me yeye ketch sight er de bottom er de tumbler, me see some speck.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	compound	_	_
16	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
23	er	er	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	compound	_	_
25	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	conj	_	_
27	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	flat:foreign	_	_
28	tumbler	tumbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
32	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	speck	speck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | a wen and a yeye ketch sight | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **drink down** *not said to happen* | infinitive | a wen and a yeye ketch sight *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient |
| 3 | **drink** | present | me | outer de glass |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient |
| 4 | **sight** |  | me | de bottom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | present | me | some speck |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer speck=Stimulus |

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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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