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title: Eh lib day, eh eat, eh sleep, eh pledjur ehself, an eh fine eh bittl… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh lib day, eh eat, eh sleep, eh pledjur ehself, an eh fine eh bittle right ter eh han. 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 72

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Eh lib day, eh eat, eh sleep, eh pledjur ehself, an eh fine eh bittle right ter eh han.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** sleep

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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:pg76586:5:72
# text = Eh lib day, eh eat, eh sleep, eh pledjur ehself, an eh fine eh bittle right ter eh han.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	lib	lib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
12	pledjur	pledjur	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	vocative	_	_
13	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bittle	bittle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
20	right	right	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | infinitive | Eh | eh sleep |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient |

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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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