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title: Eh come ter de ribber bank, an no boat day fuh him fuh git cross. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh come ter de ribber bank, an no boat day fuh him fuh git cross. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 7

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Eh come ter de ribber bank, an no boat day fuh him fuh git cross.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** de ribber bank

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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:pg76586:5:7
# text = Eh come ter de ribber bank, an no boat day fuh him fuh git cross.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ter	ter	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	ribber	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
10	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Eh | de ribber bank |  |  | day | ter *property* | 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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