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title: Eh dat tired, an sore, an skade, eh dunno wuh fuh do. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh dat tired, an sore, an skade, eh dunno wuh fuh do. 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 97

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Eh dat tired, an sore, an skade, eh dunno wuh fuh do.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Eh

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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:pg76586:4:97
# text = Eh dat tired, an sore, an skade, eh dunno wuh fuh do.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	skade	skade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	dunno	dunno	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
13	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | infinitive | Eh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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