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title: Eh come dat ebenin, an eh set on de tree-limb right ober way Buh Roo… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh come dat ebenin, an eh set on de tree-limb right ober way Buh Rooster duh sleep. 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 every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 14

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Eh come dat ebenin, an eh set on de tree-limb right ober way Buh Rooster duh sleep.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** ebenin

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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:pg76586:2:14
# text = Eh come dat ebenin, an eh set on de tree-limb right ober way Buh Rooster duh sleep.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dat	dat	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	ebenin	ebenin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	limb	limb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	right	right	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	ober	ober	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | Eh | ebenin |  |  |  | dat *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ebenin=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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