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title: Eh push de do open, an day bin de Ole Man duh siddown on eh bench du… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh push de do open, an day bin de Ole Man duh siddown on eh bench duh nod by de fire. Who acts: you, de. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 117

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Eh push de do open, an day bin de Ole Man duh siddown on eh bench duh nod by de fire.

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**Who acts:** you, de · **What happens:** push, fire · **To what, where:** de, eh bench

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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 (you, de), 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:pg76586:6:117
# text = Eh push de do open, an day bin de Ole Man duh siddown on eh bench duh nod by de fire.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	push	push	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	xcomp	_	_
5	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	de	de	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	siddown	siddown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
18	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	nod	nod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | imperative | you *not said here* | de |  | eh bench and duh nod |  | by de's fire; a day bin de Ole Man *obl*; siddown *obl* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent de=Theme on bench=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fire** |  | de |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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