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title: Eh hail de Sun one time, an eh tell um eh so hongry eh ready fuh dra… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh hail de Sun one time, an eh tell um eh so hongry eh ready fuh drap; dat eh cant git bittle fuh eat; an he dunno wuh fuh do. Who acts: Buh. 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 pragmat
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 4

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Eh hail de Sun one time, an eh tell um eh so hongry eh ready fuh drap; dat eh cant git bittle fuh eat; an he dunno wuh fuh do.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** drap, eat, dunno, do · **To what, where:** Eh hail

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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 (Buh), 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:pg76586:2:4
# text = Eh hail de Sun one time, an eh tell um eh so hongry eh ready fuh drap; dat eh cant git bittle fuh eat; an he dunno wuh fuh do.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	hongry	hongry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
18	drap	drap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
24	bittle	bittle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
25	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	_
26	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	dunno	dunno	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
31	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
32	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	33	discourse	_	_
33	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drap** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dunno** |  | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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