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title: Den eh holler out de turd time, an eh say: “Go on, me duh comin.” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh holler out de turd time, an eh say: “Go on, me duh comin.” Who acts: Den eh holler. 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 152

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Den eh holler out de turd time, an eh say: “Go on, me duh comin.”

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**Who acts:** Den eh holler · **What happens:** say, go on · **To what, where:** Den eh holler · **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 (Den eh holler), 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:pg76586:5:152
# text = Den eh holler out de turd time, an eh say: “Go on, me duh comin.”
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	de	de	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	turd	turd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	on	on	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
18	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	comin	comin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Den eh holler de turd time |  |  |  |  | a eh *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go on** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Den eh holler de turd time *= holler* |  |  |  | comin *parataxis* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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