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title: Eh say ter um, moöber, dat eh doubt um, an dat eh yent bliebe eh kin… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh say ter um, moöber, dat eh doubt um, an dat eh yent bliebe eh kin cunjur none tall; dat ef eh kin cunjur eh mus tell um right off wuh eh got een him hat. Who acts: Eh, dat. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, with i
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 10

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Eh say ter um, moöber, dat eh doubt um, an dat eh yent bliebe eh kin cunjur none tall; dat ef eh kin cunjur eh mus tell um right off wuh eh got een him hat.

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**Who acts:** Eh, dat · **What happens:** say, mus, tell, get · **To what, where:** ter um, um, een · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh, dat), 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:pg76586:7:10
# text = Eh say ter um, moöber, dat eh doubt um, an dat eh yent bliebe eh kin cunjur none tall; dat ef eh kin cunjur eh mus tell um right off wuh eh got een him hat.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	moöber	moöber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	bliebe	bliebe	X	FW	_	18	compound	_	_
18	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	22	nsubj	_	_
22	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
24	dat	dat	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	nsubj	_	_
25	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	mus	mus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
31	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
32	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	right	right	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	off	off	ADP	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	37	discourse	_	_
36	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
38	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	obj	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
40	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Eh | ter um and moöber and eh doubt um and a dat eh |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent um=Topic |
| 2 | **mus** |  | dat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present |  | um |  |  |  | right *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent um=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **get** | past | eh | een |  |  |  | mus *obj*; hat *obj* | 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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