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title: Eh faid say ef eh cant git back eh gagement Ring all eh good luck gw… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh faid say ef eh cant git back eh gagement Ring all eh good luck gwine leff um. Who acts: Eh, ef, eh cant git. 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 143

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Eh faid say ef eh cant git back eh gagement Ring all eh good luck gwine leff um.

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**Who acts:** Eh, ef, eh cant git · **What happens:** fai, say, git, ring · **To what, where:** leff um · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, ef, eh cant git), 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:pg76586:6:143
# text = Eh faid say ef eh cant git back eh gagement Ring all eh good luck gwine leff um.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	faid	fai	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
4	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	gagement	gagement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Ring	ring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fai** | past | Eh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Eh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **git** |  | ef |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ring** | infinitive | eh cant git *not said here* | all leff um |  |  |  | gagement *compound* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location um=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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