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title: Eh had a white spot yuh, and a red spot day; a white spot yuh, and a… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh had a white spot yuh, and a red spot day; a white spot yuh, and a red spot day; a white spot yuh, and a red spot day.” Who acts: Eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 112

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Eh had a white spot yuh, and a red spot day; a white spot yuh, and a red spot day; a white spot yuh, and a red spot day.”

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** white spot

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh), 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:pg76586:2:112
# text = Eh had a white spot yuh, and a red spot day; a white spot yuh, and a red spot day; a white spot yuh, and a red spot day.”
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	yuh	yuh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
17	yuh	yuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
28	yuh	yuh	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Eh | a white spot |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient |

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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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