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title: Den eh up an quaint Buh Rooster how de Sun wouldnt gie um no bittle… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh up an quaint Buh Rooster how de Sun wouldnt gie um no bittle fuh eat; how eh dribe um way; an how eh tell um fuh go back to de man wuh pit um on de trail fuh ketch um in eh bed, an mek um fine um. Who acts: you, de Sun wouldnt, bittle fuh, eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 37

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Den eh up an quaint Buh Rooster how de Sun wouldnt gie um no bittle fuh eat; how eh dribe um way; an how eh tell um fuh go back to de man wuh pit um on de trail fuh ketch um in eh bed, an mek um fine um.

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**Who acts:** you, de Sun wouldnt, bittle fuh, eh, um fuh · **What happens:** den up, gie, eat, tell, go back · **To what, where:** eh, um fine um, wuh pit um, de ketch um · **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 (you, de Sun wouldnt, bittle fuh, 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:pg76586:2:37
# text = Den eh up an quaint Buh Rooster how de Sun wouldnt gie um no bittle fuh eat; how eh dribe um way; an how eh tell um fuh go back to de man wuh pit um on de trail fuh ketch um in eh bed, an mek um fine um.
1	Den	den	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	eh	eh	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	quaint	quaint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Rooster	rooster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
9	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	wouldnt	wouldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gie	gie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
13	um	um	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
15	bittle	bittle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	dribe	dribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
22	um	um	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
27	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj	_	_
28	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
29	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	35	compound	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	wuh	wuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
40	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
41	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
50	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
52	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **den up** | imperative | you *not said here* | eh |  |  |  | a quaint Buh Rooster *obl*; eh dribe *obl*; um way *obl:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 2 | **gie** | present | de Sun wouldnt |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | present | no bittle fuh |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a eh | a um fine um |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **go back** | infinitive | um fuh | wuh pit um |  | de ketch um in eh bed |  | to de man *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to man=Result |

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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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