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title: Eh crap, eh day een de grass, an Buh Wolf faid eh gwine loss um. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh crap, eh day een de grass, an Buh Wolf faid eh gwine loss um. Who acts: Eh crap. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5, 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 5, sentence 105

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Eh crap, eh day een de grass, an Buh Wolf faid eh gwine loss um.

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**Who acts:** Eh crap · **What happens:** fai · **To what, where:** eh loss um

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh crap), 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:pg76586:5:105
# text = Eh crap, eh day een de grass, an Buh Wolf faid eh gwine loss um.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	crap	crap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	de	de	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	faid	fai	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fai** | past | Eh crap | eh loss um |  |  |  | a Buh Wolf *nsubj* | 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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