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title: Eh gedder water in piggin an calabash fuh lass um, an den eh git two… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh gedder water in piggin an calabash fuh lass um, an den eh git two oncommon big horn, an eh gone eenside an fassen up de do, an mek ehself saterfy. Who acts: eh, two oncommon big horn. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, par
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 71

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Eh gedder water in piggin an calabash fuh lass um, an den eh git two oncommon big horn, an eh gone eenside an fassen up de do, an mek ehself saterfy.

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**Who acts:** eh, two oncommon big horn · **What happens:** go, fassen up, do · **To what, where:** gone eenside, eh git, fuh lass um

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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, two oncommon big horn), 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:pg76586:5:71
# text = Eh gedder water in piggin an calabash fuh lass um, an den eh git two oncommon big horn, an eh gone eenside an fassen up de do, an mek ehself saterfy.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	gedder	gedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	piggin	piggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	calabash	calabash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	lass	lass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
17	oncommon	oncommon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	eenside	eenside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fassen	fassen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	flat	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	flat	_	_
34	saterfy	saterfy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fassen up** | present | a eh *not said here* | gone eenside |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present | two oncommon big horn | a eh git *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent git=Eventuality |

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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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