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title: Eh go way off, an ebry time eh yeddy Buh Chanticleer flap eh wing an… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh go way off, an ebry time eh yeddy Buh Chanticleer flap eh wing an crow, him do de same. Who acts: you, 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 clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 21

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Eh go way off, an ebry time eh yeddy Buh Chanticleer flap eh wing an crow, him do de same.

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**Who acts:** you, hab · **What happens:** go off, do · **To what, where:** way, same

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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, 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:pg76586:6:21
# text = Eh go way off, an ebry time eh yeddy Buh Chanticleer flap eh wing an crow, him do de same.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	off	off	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	ebry	ebry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	eh	eh	X	GW	_	2	parataxis	_	_
10	yeddy	yeddy	X	NN	_	9	goeswith	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
12	Chanticleer	chanticleer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	flap	flap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	de	de	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obj	_	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 | **go off** | imperative | you *not said here* | way |  |  |  | off *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | hab | de same |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |

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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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