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title: Ebry hour eh fetch um snake an fish, an eh garde um from win an rain… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ebry hour eh fetch um snake an fish, an eh garde um from win an rain an fowl-hawk, an mek um grow fas. Who acts: fish. 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 173

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Ebry hour eh fetch um snake an fish, an eh garde um from win an rain an fowl-hawk, an mek um grow fas.

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**Who acts:** fish · **What happens:** win, grow · **To what, where:** rain, fas, eh um snake

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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 (fish), 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:pg76586:5:173
# text = Ebry hour eh fetch um snake an fish, an eh garde um from win an rain an fowl-hawk, an mek um grow fas.
1	Ebry	Ebry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	fetch	fetch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	garde	garde	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	win	win	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
26	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
27	fas	fa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | infinitive |  | a rain |  |  |  | a fowl hawk *obj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent rain=Beneficiary hawk=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | present | a fish and a mek um | fas |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fa=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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