--- title: Wid dem people wuh no quaintun wid um eh pass ehself off fuh er fus-… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics description: Wid dem people wuh no quaintun wid um eh pass ehself off fuh er fus-class cook, an eh tell um say eh hab one rock wuh mek pruppus fuh gie soup de bes tase; an dat de soup wuh mek long dat rock sweeter den all edder soup. Who acts: dem people, eh tell um, mek, dat de soup. A sentence of «Negro myths --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/6/77/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Negro myths from the Georgia coast, to…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/) / [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/6/) / 77 # Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 77 Wid dem people wuh no quaintun wid um eh pass ehself off fuh er fus-class cook, an eh tell um say eh hab one rock wuh mek pruppus fuh gie soup de bes tase; an dat de soup wuh mek long dat rock sweeter den all edder soup. **Who acts:** dem people, eh tell um, mek, dat de soup · **What happens:** pass off, say, gie, rock, soup · **To what, where:** ehself, eh hab, soup · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (dem people, eh tell um, mek, dat de soup), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg76586:6:77 # text = Wid dem people wuh no quaintun wid um eh pass ehself off fuh er fus-class cook, an eh tell um say eh hab one rock wuh mek pruppus fuh gie soup de bes tase; an dat de soup wuh mek long dat rock sweeter den all edder soup. 1 Wid Wid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 dem dem NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 4 wuh wuh INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 quaintun quaintun NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 eh eh NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 pass pass VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 ehself ehself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 off off ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 13 fuh fuh INTJ UH _ 18 discourse _ _ 14 er e ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 15 fus fus ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 eh eh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 tell tell NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 25 eh eh X FW _ 26 compound _ _ 26 hab hab NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 29 wuh wuh INTJ UH _ 28 discourse _ _ 30 mek MEK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 pruppus pruppus NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 32 fuh fuh INTJ UH _ 31 discourse _ _ 33 gie gie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 34 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 34 flat:foreign _ _ 36 bes be NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 compound _ _ 37 tase tase NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 39 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 40 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 41 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 43 wuh wuh INTJ UH _ 47 discourse _ _ 44 mek MEK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 45 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 46 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 appos _ _ 48 sweeter sweet ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 49 amod _ _ 49 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 conj _ _ 50 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 52 det _ _ 51 edder edd ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 52 amod _ _ 52 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass off** | infinitive | dem people | ehself | | | | class cook *obl*; no quaintun *nsubj*; wid um eh *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ehself=Trajectory | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a eh tell um | eh hab | | | | one rock and mek pruppus *obj* | tree rules | | 3 | **gie** | infinitive | | soup and bes tase | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **rock** | | mek | | | | | sweeter den *conj* | tree rules | | 5 | **soup** | | a dat de soup | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/6/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/6/78/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/6/)