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title: Eh charge eh serbant fuh tek good care er de conjur man, an feed um… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh charge eh serbant fuh tek good care er de conjur man, an feed um high. 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 150

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Eh charge eh serbant fuh tek good care er de conjur man, an feed um high.

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**What happens:** feed · **To what, where:** um

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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: 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:pg76586:6:150
# text = Eh charge eh serbant fuh tek good care er de conjur man, an feed um high.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	charge	charge	ADJ	GW	Degree=Pos|Typo=Yes	0	root	_	_
3	eh	eh	X	GW	_	2	flat	_	_
4	serbant	serbant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
9	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	amod	_	_
11	conjur	conjur	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | present |  | um |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Recipient |

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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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