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title: Eh bring eh scale, an eh pit de cheese een um. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh bring eh scale, an eh pit de cheese een um. Who acts: you. 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 39

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Eh bring eh scale, an eh pit de cheese een um.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** bring · **To what, where:** eh scale

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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 (you), 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:pg76586:5:39
# text = Eh bring eh scale, an eh pit de cheese een um.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
10	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
12	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* | eh scale |  |  |  | cheese um *obj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent scale=Destination um=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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