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title: Eh mek um quaintun bout wen de Ring tuk, an who eh tink tief um; an… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh mek um quaintun bout wen de Ring tuk, an who eh tink tief um; an eh say eh gwine gie um fibe day time fuh pint out de man wuh bin tek de Ring, an mek um tun um. Who acts: quaintun bout wen, eh, eh gwine, pint. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 148

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Eh mek um quaintun bout wen de Ring tuk, an who eh tink tief um; an eh say eh gwine gie um fibe day time fuh pint out de man wuh bin tek de Ring, an mek um tun um.

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**Who acts:** quaintun bout wen, eh, eh gwine, pint · **What happens:** tink, say, gie, tek · **To what, where:** tief um, quaintun bout wen · **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 (quaintun bout wen, eh, eh gwine, pint), 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:pg76586:6:148
# text = Eh mek um quaintun bout wen de Ring tuk, an who eh tink tief um; an eh say eh gwine gie um fibe day time fuh pint out de man wuh bin tek de Ring, an mek um tun um.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	quaintun	quaintun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	de	de	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	tuk	tuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	tink	tink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	tief	tief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
21	eh	eh	X	FW	_	22	compound	_	_
22	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	gie	gie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
24	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
25	fibe	fibe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	_
29	pint	pint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	compound	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	wuh	wuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	_
36	de	de	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
40	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
41	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tink** | infinitive | quaintun bout wen  Eh de Ring tuk | tief um |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **gie** | present | eh gwine |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tek** |  | pint |  |  |  |  | de Ring; de man *nsubj*; a mek tun um *conj* | 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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