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title: Eh run ebry time eh see Buh Chanticleer duh walk towuds um, but eh h… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh run ebry time eh see Buh Chanticleer duh walk towuds um, but eh hab a way fuh debble Buh Chanticleer. Who acts: Eh, Buh, hab. 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 20

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Eh run ebry time eh see Buh Chanticleer duh walk towuds um, but eh hab a way fuh debble Buh Chanticleer.

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**Who acts:** Eh, Buh, hab · **What happens:** run, see, walk, debble · **To what, where:** time eh, towuds 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, Buh, hab), 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:pg76586:6:20
# text = Eh run ebry time eh see Buh Chanticleer duh walk towuds um, but eh hab a way fuh debble Buh Chanticleer.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ebry	ebry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	Chanticleer	Chanticleer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
11	towuds	towud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	debble	debble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
22	Chanticleer	Chanticleer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | Eh | time eh |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eh=Trajectory |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | Eh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **walk** | infinitive | Buh | towuds um |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme um=Trajectory |
| 4 | **debble** |  | eh hab |  |  |  |  | Buh *appos* | 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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