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title: Eh gen de bag ter Buh Monkey, an eh tell um: “Trouble day een dis ye… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh gen de bag ter Buh Monkey, an eh tell um: “Trouble day een dis yer bag. 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 71

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Eh gen de bag ter Buh Monkey, an eh tell um: “Trouble day een dis yer bag.

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**To what, where:** gen de bag

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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: 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:pg76586:4:71
# text = Eh gen de bag ter Buh Monkey, an eh tell um: “Trouble day een dis yer bag.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Monkey	Monkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	_
18	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
19	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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