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title: Eh call een eh fren an wise man fuh help um pint out de tief an fine… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh call een eh fren an wise man fuh help um pint out de tief an fine dat Ring, an dem cant. Who acts: you, wise man fuh. 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 144

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Eh call een eh fren an wise man fuh help um pint out de tief an fine dat Ring, an dem cant.

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**Who acts:** you, wise man fuh · **What happens:** call, help, um out · **To what, where:** een eh, pint · **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 (you, wise man fuh), 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:pg76586:6:144
# text = Eh call een eh fren an wise man fuh help um pint out de tief an fine dat Ring, an dem cant.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	fren	fren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	um	um	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
12	pint	pint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
15	tief	tief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	cant	cant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | een eh |  |  |  | fren *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent eh=Recipient |
| 2 | **help** | present | a wise man fuh |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **um out** | infinitive | a wise man fuh *not said here* | pint |  |  |  | de tief *obj*; a fine dat Ring *obj* | tree rules |

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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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