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title: Miley look say eh bin want fuh ax me someting; an den, all ob a sutt… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Miley look say eh bin want fuh ax me someting; an den, all ob a sutten, eh check isself, an eh tun roun an mek off fuh de grabe-yad. Who acts: Miley, eh bin. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tre
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 26

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Miley look say eh bin want fuh ax me someting; an den, all ob a sutten, eh check isself, an eh tun roun an mek off fuh de grabe-yad.

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**Who acts:** Miley, eh bin · **What happens:** look, say, want, ax, somet, check · **To what, where:** den, me, isself · **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 (Miley, eh bin), 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:pg76586:14:26
# text = Miley look say eh bin want fuh ax me someting; an den, all ob a sutten, eh check isself, an eh tun roun an mek off fuh de grabe-yad.
1	Miley	Miley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
4	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	ax	ax	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	someting	somet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	ob	ob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sutten	sutten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
21	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	isself	isself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
30	off	off	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	_
32	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	flat	_	_
33	grabe	grabe	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	yad	yad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | Miley | a den |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Miley *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **want** | present | eh bin |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **ax** *not said to happen* | infinitive | eh bin *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **somet** | gerund | eh bin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **check** | infinitive |  | isself |  |  |  | a eh tun roun *obl* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent isself=Theme |

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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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