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title: Eh wife tell um; an arter Buh Tiger fine out Buh Bear yent guine lef… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh wife tell um; an arter Buh Tiger fine out Buh Bear yent guine leff, eh come out. Who acts: Eh wife, arter, 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 41

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Eh wife tell um; an arter Buh Tiger fine out Buh Bear yent guine leff, eh come out.

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**Who acts:** Eh wife, arter, eh · **What happens:** tell, fine out, come out · **To what, where:** 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 (Eh wife, arter, 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:pg76586:4:41
# text = Eh wife tell um; an arter Buh Tiger fine out Buh Bear yent guine leff, eh come out.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	arter	arter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	fine	fine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	guine	guine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
20	out	out	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	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* | present | Eh wife | um |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient |
| 2 | **fine out** | past | a arter |  |  |  |  | Buh  yent guine leff *conj* | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come out** | present | eh |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

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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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