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title: Eh look ober all de tetter, an wen eh fine Buh Sparruh no bin bring… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh look ober all de tetter, an wen eh fine Buh Sparruh no bin bring none, eh ax Buh Sparruh: “Way you tetter?” Who acts: you, wen. 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 ever
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 196

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Eh look ober all de tetter, an wen eh fine Buh Sparruh no bin bring none, eh ax Buh Sparruh: “Way you tetter?”

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**Who acts:** you, wen · **What happens:** look, tetter, bring · **To what, where:** all, none, Way

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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 (you, wen), 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:pg76586:2:196
# text = Eh look ober all de tetter, an wen eh fine Buh Sparruh no bin bring none, eh ax Buh Sparruh: “Way you tetter?”
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ober	ober	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	_
6	tetter	tetter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Sparruh	Sparruh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
17	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
22	Sparruh	Sparruh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	tetter	tetter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | all |  |  |  | Way *parataxis*; ober *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tetter** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive | a wen | none |  |  |  | no bin *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent none=Theme |
| 4 | **tetter** *in a quote* | present | you | Way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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