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title: Eh say eh too weak fuh git outer de bed, and dat ef eh did get up eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh say eh too weak fuh git outer de bed, and dat ef eh did get up eh too weak fuh walk ter de Gal house. Who acts: Eh, ef. 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 84

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Eh say eh too weak fuh git outer de bed, and dat ef eh did get up eh too weak fuh walk ter de Gal house.

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**Who acts:** Eh, ef · **What happens:** say, get up · **To what, where:** eh, weak fuh walk ter · **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, ef), 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:pg76586:3:84
# text = Eh say eh too weak fuh git outer de bed, and dat ef eh did get up eh too weak fuh walk ter de Gal house.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
10	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
25	de	de	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | eh |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent eh=Topic |
| 2 | **get up** | past · do-support | that ef | weak fuh walk ter |  |  |  | de Gal house | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ter=Stimulus |

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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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