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title: An eh mek all eh quaintunce sensible er de big faber wuh Buh Mash-he… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: An eh mek all eh quaintunce sensible er de big faber wuh Buh Mash-hen bin done ter um. 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 every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 15

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An eh mek all eh quaintunce sensible er de big faber wuh Buh Mash-hen bin done ter um.

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**What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Buh hen bin, sensible er

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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: 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:pg76586:3:15
# text = An eh mek all eh quaintunce sensible er de big faber wuh Buh Mash-hen bin done ter um.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mek	mek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	quaintunce	quaintunce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	faber	faber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
14	Mash	Mash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
18	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  | Buh hen bin *not said here* |  |  |  | ter um | 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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