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title: Arter eh leff de swamp fuh gone home, de snake spicion say eh bin gu… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Arter eh leff de swamp fuh gone home, de snake spicion say eh bin guine go back on eh prommus an tell eh wife: so eh mek up eh mine fuh foller um an see wuh happne. Who acts: Arter eh leff, eh bin guine. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jo
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 140

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Arter eh leff de swamp fuh gone home, de snake spicion say eh bin guine go back on eh prommus an tell eh wife: so eh mek up eh mine fuh foller um an see wuh happne.

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**Who acts:** Arter eh leff, eh bin guine · **What happens:** go, say, go back, see · **To what, where:** swamp fuh, eh prommus · **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 (Arter eh leff, eh bin guine), 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:pg76586:4:140
# text = Arter eh leff de swamp fuh gone home, de snake spicion say eh bin guine go back on eh prommus an tell eh wife: so eh mek up eh mine fuh foller um an see wuh happne.
1	Arter	Arter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	eh	eh	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
3	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	flat:foreign	_	_
5	swamp	swamp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
11	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	spicion	spicion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	prommus	prommus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	_
33	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	35	discourse	_	_
34	foller	foller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	compound	_	_
38	wuh	wuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	happne	happne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | participle |  | swamp fuh *not said here* |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Arter eh leff and swamp fuh and de snake spicion |  |  |  |  | eh mek  mine *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go back** | infinitive | eh bin guine |  |  | eh prommus  a eh wife |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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