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title: Eh leff Buh Rooster, an eh sail way up in de element tell eh done go… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh leff Buh Rooster, an eh sail way up in de element tell eh done gone in de cloud. Who acts: Eh. 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 every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 46

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Eh leff Buh Rooster, an eh sail way up in de element tell eh done gone in de cloud.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** tell, do · **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), 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:pg76586:2:46
# text = Eh leff Buh Rooster, an eh sail way up in de element tell eh done gone in de cloud.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
2	leff	leff	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
10	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
17	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | 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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