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title: Ebry day, from sunrise tel sundown, eh day in de swamp der cut. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ebry day, from sunrise tel sundown, eh day in de swamp der cut. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4, 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 4, sentence 117

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Ebry day, from sunrise tel sundown, eh day in de swamp der cut.

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**To what, where:** Ebry day

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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 4. 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:pg76586:4:117
# text = Ebry day, from sunrise tel sundown, eh day in de swamp der cut.
1	Ebry	Ebry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	sunrise	sunrise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	sundown	sundown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	swamp	swamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	der	der	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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