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title: Den eh weigh de cheese gen een de scale, an eh tek um out an eh cut… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh weigh de cheese gen een de scale, an eh tek um out an eh cut off narrur slice, an eh pit um one side an eh say dat fuh de jedge. Who acts: eh. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 41

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Den eh weigh de cheese gen een de scale, an eh tek um out an eh cut off narrur slice, an eh pit um one side an eh say dat fuh de jedge.

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**Who acts:** eh · **What happens:** cut off, say · **To what, where:** dat fuh, de cheese gen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg76586:5:41
# text = Den eh weigh de cheese gen een de scale, an eh tek um out an eh cut off narrur slice, an eh pit um one side an eh say dat fuh de jedge.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	eh	eh	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	flat	_	_
3	weigh	weigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
9	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	narrur	narrur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	slice	slice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
26	um	um	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
32	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	flat:foreign	_	_
35	jedge	jedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut off** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a eh | dat fuh and jedge |  |  |  | um one side | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fuh=Topic |

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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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