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title: Eh dis leggo ebryting in de element, an eh fall heel ober head plash… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh dis leggo ebryting in de element, an eh fall heel ober head plash in de water. Who acts: eh fall heel. 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 95

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Eh dis leggo ebryting in de element, an eh fall heel ober head plash in de water.

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**Who acts:** eh fall heel · **What happens:** plash · **To what, where:** de water, dis leggo ebryting

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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 fall heel), 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:pg76586:2:95
# text = Eh dis leggo ebryting in de element, an eh fall heel ober head plash in de water.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	leggo	leggo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ebryting	ebryting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	heel	heel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	ober	ober	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	plash	plash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plash** |  | eh fall heel |  |  | de water |  |  | tree rules |

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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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