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title: De wife say but eh mus tell um, an eh bague so hard tel de man done… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De wife say but eh mus tell um, an eh bague so hard tel de man done furgit eh prommus, an eh up an mek um sensible how de ting all happne. Who acts: De wife, mus, man. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4, with its depen
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 151

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De wife say but eh mus tell um, an eh bague so hard tel de man done furgit eh prommus, an eh up an mek um sensible how de ting all happne.

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**Who acts:** De wife, mus, man · **What happens:** say, eh, tell, do, eh up · **To what, where:** um, furgit eh prommus, mek um · **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 (De wife, mus, man), 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:pg76586:4:151
# text = De wife say but eh mus tell um, an eh bague so hard tel de man done furgit eh prommus, an eh up an mek um sensible how de ting all happne.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	eh	eh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	mus	mus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bague	bague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat:foreign	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	furgit	furgit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	eh	eh	X	FW	_	21	compound	_	_
21	prommus	prommus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	eh	eh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
31	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	happne	happne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | De wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **eh** | infinitive | De wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | mus | um and a eh bague |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient |
| 4 | **do** | participle | man *not said here* | furgit eh prommus |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prommus=Eventuality |
| 5 | **eh up** | present | mus *not said here* | a mek um |  |  |  | sensible de ting *obl:unmarked*; all happne *obj* | tree rules |

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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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