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title: Eh wife glad, an eh say: “Tell me way you bin git all dis money.” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh wife glad, an eh say: “Tell me way you bin git all dis money.” Who acts: Eh wife, you. 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 147

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Eh wife glad, an eh say: “Tell me way you bin git all dis money.”

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**Who acts:** Eh wife, you · **What happens:** say, tell, bin · **To what, where:** way git, Eh wife, way · **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 (Eh wife, you), 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:pg76586:4:147
# text = Eh wife glad, an eh say: “Tell me way you bin git all dis money.”
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	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: assert* | infinitive | Eh wife and a eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Eh wife and a eh *not said here* | way git | Eh wife and a eh *= wife* |  |  | all dis money *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | you | way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=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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