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title: Arter a while eh yeddy er leely woice eenside say: “Who dat?” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Arter a while eh yeddy er leely woice eenside say: “Who dat?” Who acts: Arter. 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 66

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Arter a while eh yeddy er leely woice eenside say: “Who dat?”

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**Who acts:** Arter · **What happens:** eh, say, dat · **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 (Arter), 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:pg76586:3:66
# text = Arter a while eh yeddy er leely woice eenside say: “Who dat?”
1	Arter	Arter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	eh	eh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
7	leely	leely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	woice	woice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	eenside	eenside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | Arter |  |  |  |  | woice eenside *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dat** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  | Who *nsubj* | 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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