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title: Eh spicion say Buh Alligatur guine trick um, an kill um, an eat um,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh spicion say Buh Alligatur guine trick um, an kill um, an eat um, an eh tell Buh Alligatur him too scheemy. Who acts: Eh spicion. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 11

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Eh spicion say Buh Alligatur guine trick um, an kill um, an eat um, an eh tell Buh Alligatur him too scheemy.

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**Who acts:** Eh spicion · **What happens:** say, eat · **To what, where:** 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh spicion), 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:pg76586:3:11
# text = Eh spicion say Buh Alligatur guine trick um, an kill um, an eat um, an eh tell Buh Alligatur him too scheemy.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	spicion	spicion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
5	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	scheemy	scheemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Eh spicion |  |  |  |  | Buh trick um and a kill um *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **eat** | present |  | um  Buh  um and a eh tell |  |  |  | scheemy *obl* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient |

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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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