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title: Eh notus close, an wen eh yeddy de woice gen eh see er Blue-Jay bin… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh notus close, an wen eh yeddy de woice gen eh see er Blue-Jay bin er talk um een de tree. Who acts: Eh notus. 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 20

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Eh notus close, an wen eh yeddy de woice gen eh see er Blue-Jay bin er talk um een de tree.

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**Who acts:** Eh notus · **What happens:** see

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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 (Eh notus), 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:pg76586:5:20
# text = Eh notus close, an wen eh yeddy de woice gen eh see er Blue-Jay bin er talk um een de tree.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	notus	notus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
10	woice	woice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	er	er	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Jay	Jay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
18	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	er	er	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
21	um	um	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	compound	_	_
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Eh notus and a eh yeddy  woice gen eh |  |  |  |  | Blue Jay er talk um een  de tree *conj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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