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title: Eh tell um eh hab high feber, an eh cant rise; dat eh back bin er ho… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh tell um eh hab high feber, an eh cant rise; dat eh back bin er hot um so bad eh cant tun in eh bed. Who acts: Eh, dat. 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 73

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Eh tell um eh hab high feber, an eh cant rise; dat eh back bin er hot um so bad eh cant tun in eh bed.

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**Who acts:** Eh, dat · **What happens:** tell, bin · **To what, where:** eh hab, hot 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, dat), 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:pg76586:3:73
# text = Eh tell um eh hab high feber, an eh cant rise; dat eh back bin er hot um so bad eh cant tun in eh bed.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	feber	feber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	cant	cant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
19	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | eh hab and high feber and a eh cant rise |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hab=Recipient |
| 2 | **bin** | present | dat | hot um |  |  |  | bad eh cant tun in eh bed *obl* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent um=Theme |

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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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