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title: Den de Sperit, eh bow eh head low an eh mek answer: “Me come fuh you.” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den de Sperit, eh bow eh head low an eh mek answer: “Me come fuh you.” Who acts: Eh. 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 127

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Den de Sperit, eh bow eh head low an eh mek answer: “Me come fuh you.”

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** you, eh mek answer

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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 (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:pg76586:6:127
# text = Den de Sperit, eh bow eh head low an eh mek answer: “Me come fuh you.”
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Sperit	Sperit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	mek	mek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
18	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Eh | you |  |  |  |  | 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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