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title: Eh always ready fuh mek big brag bout wuh him gwine do, but eh nebbe… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh always ready fuh mek big brag bout wuh him gwine do, but eh nebber does come up ter eh wud. Who acts: mek, gwine, nebber. 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 clau
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 58

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Eh always ready fuh mek big brag bout wuh him gwine do, but eh nebber does come up ter eh wud.

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**Who acts:** mek, gwine, nebber · **What happens:** bout, do, come up · **To what, where:** eh

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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 (mek, gwine, nebber), 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:pg76586:5:58
# text = Eh always ready fuh mek big brag bout wuh him gwine do, but eh nebber does come up ter eh wud.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
5	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	brag	brag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wud	wud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bout** |  | mek | eh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | gwine |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come up** | present · do-support | eh nebber |  |  |  |  | ter eh wud | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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