---
title: Eh know say ef eh did bin gone home wid Buh Wolf eh would er see eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh know say ef eh did bin gone home wid Buh Wolf eh would er see eh track, an fine out who eat eh butter, an dat eh would er lick um. Who acts: Eh, ef eh, wid Wolf eh, dat eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5, with i
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/166/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Negro myths from the Georgia coast, to…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/) / [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/) / 166

# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 166

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Eh know say ef eh did bin gone home wid Buh Wolf eh would er see eh track, an fine out who eat eh butter, an dat eh would er lick um.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Eh, ef eh, wid Wolf eh, dat eh · **What happens:** know, say, bin, see, eat, er · **To what, where:** gone, track, butter, um · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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, ef eh, wid Wolf eh, dat eh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:5:166
# text = Eh know say ef eh did bin gone home wid Buh Wolf eh would er see eh track, an fine out who eat eh butter, an dat eh would er lick um.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
4	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	er	er	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
17	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
25	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	er	er	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
33	lick	lick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
34	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bin** | past · do-support | ef eh | gone |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gone=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | would | wid Wolf eh | eh track |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer track=Stimulus |
| 5 | **eat** | present |  | butter |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Patient |
| 6 | **er** | would | a dat eh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **lick** | infinitive | a dat eh *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent um=Source |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 165](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/165/)
- next →: [sentence 167](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/167/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/)