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title: At lenk eh miss an gone ter Buh Fox house, an tell um bout eh rock-s… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: At lenk eh miss an gone ter Buh Fox house, an tell um bout eh rock-soup. Who acts: Fox house. 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 85

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At lenk eh miss an gone ter Buh Fox house, an tell um bout eh rock-soup.

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**Who acts:** Fox house · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** um bout, Fox house · **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 (Fox house), 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:pg76586:6:85
# text = At lenk eh miss an gone ter Buh Fox house, an tell um bout eh rock-soup.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	lenk	lenk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	miss	miss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Fox house at lenk eh miss  a gone ter *not said here* | um bout |  |  |  | eh rock soup *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent bout=Recipient soup=Topic |

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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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