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title: Eh sen eh wife fuh say eh bin berry sick. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh sen eh wife fuh say eh bin berry sick. Who acts: Eh. 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 39

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Eh sen eh wife fuh say eh bin berry sick.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** eh bin berry · **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), 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:pg76586:4:39
# text = Eh sen eh wife fuh say eh bin berry sick.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	sen	sen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | eh bin berry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent berry=Topic |

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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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