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title: Eh wipe eh mouf, an eh sukkle back tell eh git ter de place een de f… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh wipe eh mouf, an eh sukkle back tell eh git ter de place een de fiel way eh bin leff eh hoe. Who acts: you, mouf. 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 122

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Eh wipe eh mouf, an eh sukkle back tell eh git ter de place een de fiel way eh bin leff eh hoe.

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**Who acts:** you, mouf · **What happens:** wipe, tell · **To what, where:** eh, eh git · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mouf), 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:pg76586:5:122
# text = Eh wipe eh mouf, an eh sukkle back tell eh git ter de place een de fiel way eh bin leff eh hoe.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	wipe	wipe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	eh	eh	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	mouf	mouf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sukkle	sukkle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	ter	ter	X	FW	_	15	compound	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
16	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	advmod	_	_
18	fiel	fiel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	hoe	hoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wipe** | imperative | you *not said here* | eh |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eh=Source |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | mouf and a eh sukkle | eh git |  |  |  | ter place  fiel way  eh eh hoe *ccomp* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent git=Recipient |

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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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