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title: Eh jaw duh run water, fuh eh tink ter ehself de Debble guine gem som… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh jaw duh run water, fuh eh tink ter ehself de Debble guine gem some nice brukwus. Who acts: Eh jaw, ehself, Debble guine. 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 claus
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 67

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Eh jaw duh run water, fuh eh tink ter ehself de Debble guine gem some nice brukwus.

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**Who acts:** Eh jaw, ehself, Debble guine · **What happens:** run, tink, de, gem · **To what, where:** water, ter, nice brukwus

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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 jaw, ehself, Debble guine), 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:pg76586:4:67
# text = Eh jaw duh run water, fuh eh tink ter ehself de Debble guine gem some nice brukwus.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	jaw	jaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
8	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	tink	tink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	de	de	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	Debble	Debble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gem	gem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	brukwus	brukwus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | infinitive | Eh jaw | water |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Trajectory |
| 2 | **tink** | infinitive |  | ter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **de** | past | ehself | ter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **gem** | present | Debble guine | some nice brukwus |  |  |  |  | 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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