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title: Eh farruh tell um: “De man wuh eat any er dat bread long you will ha… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh farruh tell um: “De man wuh eat any er dat bread long you will hab fuh rastle long you fuh sebbn year.” Who acts: you, De man. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 23

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Eh farruh tell um: “De man wuh eat any er dat bread long you will hab fuh rastle long you fuh sebbn year.”

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**Who acts:** you, De man · **What happens:** tell, eat, hab, rastle · **To what, where:** um, dat bread, you · **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 (you, De 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:pg76586:4:23
# text = Eh farruh tell um: “De man wuh eat any er dat bread long you will hab fuh rastle long you fuh sebbn year.”
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
12	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	hab	hab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
19	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
20	rastle	rastle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
23	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
24	sebbn	sebbn	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | De man | any dat bread |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 3 | **hab** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **rastle** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | you |  |  | year | long *property* | 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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