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title: Eh wunt come to de do, but eh holler back to Buh Hawk, an eh say: “Y… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh wunt come to de do, but eh holler back to Buh Hawk, an eh say: “You tun right roun, an you go to de man wuh pint you to ketch me in me bed, an you tell um fuh fine you.” Who acts: Eh wunt, holler, You. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. J
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 31

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Eh wunt come to de do, but eh holler back to Buh Hawk, an eh say: “You tun right roun, an you go to de man wuh pint you to ketch me in me bed, an you tell um fuh fine you.”

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**Who acts:** Eh wunt, holler, You · **What happens:** come, do, say, tun, go, ketch · **To what, where:** right roun, pint, holler, me bed, um, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 wunt, holler, 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:pg76586:2:31
# text = Eh wunt come to de do, but eh holler back to Buh Hawk, an eh say: “You tun right roun, an you go to de man wuh pint you to ketch me in me bed, an you tell um fuh fine you.”
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wunt	wunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	advmod	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
9	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	tun	tun	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
23	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	dep	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	compound	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	33	discourse	_	_
33	pint	pint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	ketch	ketch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
37	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	compound	_	_
40	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
45	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
46	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	47	discourse	_	_
47	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	ccomp	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	44	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | Eh wunt |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive | Eh wunt *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | eh holler to Buh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **tun** *in a quote* | present | You | right roun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | present | you | pint |  |  |  | to de man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to man=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **ketch** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | eh holler to Buh *= holler* |  | me bed |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you | um | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient um=Topic |

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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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