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title: Eh wunt leff dem chillun een de nes fuh lazy an lib pon topper eh fa… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh wunt leff dem chillun een de nes fuh lazy an lib pon topper eh farruh an eh murrer, but eh tek um on eh wing, an eh sail ober de sea, an eh tell eh chillun: “De time come fuh you fuh mek you own libbin. Who acts: De time, mek. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacu
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 175

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Eh wunt leff dem chillun een de nes fuh lazy an lib pon topper eh farruh an eh murrer, but eh tek um on eh wing, an eh sail ober de sea, an eh tell eh chillun: “De time come fuh you fuh mek you own libbin.

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**Who acts:** De time, mek · **What happens:** come, own · **To what, where:** you, libbin, Eh dem chillun

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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 (De time, mek), 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:pg76586:5:175
# text = Eh wunt leff dem chillun een de nes fuh lazy an lib pon topper eh farruh an eh murrer, but eh tek um on eh wing, an eh sail ober de sea, an eh tell eh chillun: “De time come fuh you fuh mek you own libbin.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	wunt	wunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	de	de	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	nes	ne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	lib	lib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
16	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	14	conj	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	murrer	murrer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	tek	tek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	ober	ober	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
33	de	de	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
37	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
38	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
42	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	_
46	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	45	discourse	_	_
47	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	_
48	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	51	discourse	_	_
49	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
50	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	own	own	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	parataxis	_	_
52	libbin	libbin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | De time | you |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **own** *in a quote* | present | mek | libbin |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot libbin=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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