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title: Enty, heap a time, you see Buh Mash-hen duh ketch fiddler on de ribb… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Enty, heap a time, you see Buh Mash-hen duh ketch fiddler on de ribber bank close by way Buh Alligatur duh feed, an Buh Alligatur yent lick at um wid eh tail, ner skade um? Who acts: Enty, you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Openi
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 221

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Enty, heap a time, you see Buh Mash-hen duh ketch fiddler on de ribber bank close by way Buh Alligatur duh feed, an Buh Alligatur yent lick at um wid eh tail, ner skade um?

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**Who acts:** Enty, you · **What happens:** heap, see · **To what, where:** Buh

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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 (Enty, you), 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:pg76586:2:221
# text = Enty, heap a time, you see Buh Mash-hen duh ketch fiddler on de ribber bank close by way Buh Alligatur duh feed, an Buh Alligatur yent lick at um wid eh tail, ner skade um?
1	Enty	Enty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	heap	heap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	Mash	Mash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	ribber	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
24	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	_
26	feed	feed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
30	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	lick	lick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	eh	eh	X	AFX	_	37	compound	_	_
37	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	ner	ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	skade	skade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heap** | infinitive | Enty |  |  |  | time |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | present | you | Buh |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer buh=Stimulus |

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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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