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title: Eh spit two quart er silber money on de groun dist in front er de po… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh spit two quart er silber money on de groun dist in front er de po man, an eh say: “You member wuh me bin tell you las ebenin? Who acts: silber money, You, member. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4, with its depende
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 136

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Eh spit two quart er silber money on de groun dist in front er de po man, an eh say: “You member wuh me bin tell you las ebenin?

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**Who acts:** silber money, You, member · **What happens:** say, member, tell · **To what, where:** las ebenin, you, silber money · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silber money, You, member), 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:pg76586:4:136
# text = Eh spit two quart er silber money on de groun dist in front er de po man, an eh say: “You member wuh me bin tell you las ebenin?
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	spit	spit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	quart	quart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	dep	_	_
6	silber	silber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	_
10	groun	groun	X	FW	_	11	compound	_	_
11	dist	dist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
16	po	po	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat:foreign	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
26	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	conj	_	_
28	bin	bin	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
31	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	compound	_	_
32	ebenin	ebenin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | infinitive | silber money  Eh spit quart on de groun dist in front er and member *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **member** *in a quote* |  | You |  |  |  |  | me *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | member *not said here* | las ebenin | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient ebenin=Topic |

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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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