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title: Eh day way in de swamp out er yearin, an noboddy yeddy. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh day way in de swamp out er yearin, an noboddy yeddy. Who acts: Eh day way. 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 169

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Eh day way in de swamp out er yearin, an noboddy yeddy.

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**Who acts:** Eh day way · **What happens:** swamp out

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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 day way), 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:pg76586:4:169
# text = Eh day way in de swamp out er yearin, an noboddy yeddy.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	swamp	swamp	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	er	er	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	yearin	yearin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	noboddy	noboddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swamp out** | present | Eh day way in de |  |  |  |  | er yearin and a noboddy yeddy | 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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