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title: Eh breff cant pizen you; an ef eh did knock at you, eh dis same es e… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh breff cant pizen you; an ef eh did knock at you, eh dis same es ef win try fuh hit you.” Who acts: you, Eh breff, ef. 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 59

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Eh breff cant pizen you; an ef eh did knock at you, eh dis same es ef win try fuh hit you.”

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**Who acts:** you, Eh breff, ef · **What happens:** pizen, knock, try, hit · **To what, where:** dis, same es, you

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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 breff, ef), 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:pg76586:14:59
# text = Eh breff cant pizen you; an ef eh did knock at you, eh dis same es ef win try fuh hit you.”
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	breff	breff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pizen	pizen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	ef	ef	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	win	win	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
23	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pizen** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **knock** | past · do-support | Eh breff and cant pizen | eh dis and same es |  |  |  | at you; a ef eh *nsubj* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at you=Patient |
| 3 | **try** |  | ef | same es *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hit** *not said to happen* | infinitive | ef *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-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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