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title: Eh do dis way fuh some time, guine from house teh house. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh do dis way fuh some time, guine from house teh house. Who acts: Eh. 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 84

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Eh do dis way fuh some time, guine from house teh house.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** dis · **To what, where:** way

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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), 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:pg76586:6:84
# text = Eh do dis way fuh some time, guine from house teh house.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	dis	dis	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	teh	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art|Typo=Yes	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dis** | present · do-support | Eh | way |  |  | time | guine from house *obl*; the house *obl* | 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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