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title: Eh constant duh pray, so people kin yeddy um, dat Det would come an… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh constant duh pray, so people kin yeddy um, dat Det would come an cahr way eh Mossa, an eh Mistis, an de Obersheer. Who acts: constant duh, people. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 114

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Eh constant duh pray, so people kin yeddy um, dat Det would come an cahr way eh Mossa, an eh Mistis, an de Obersheer.

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**Who acts:** constant duh, people · **What happens:** pray, come · **To what, where:** cahr way

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (constant duh, people), 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:pg76586:6:114
# text = Eh constant duh pray, so people kin yeddy um, dat Det would come an cahr way eh Mossa, an eh Mistis, an de Obersheer.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	duh	duh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
8	kin	kin	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	Det	Det	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	cahr	cahr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
20	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	Mistis	Mistis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	Obersheer	Obersheer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | present | constant duh |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **come** | would | people kin yeddy um and dat | a cahr way |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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