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title: Eh call een eh fren fuh consult, but es de body done strip, an eh he… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh call een eh fren fuh consult, but es de body done strip, an eh head done cut off an gone, nobody could mek up eh mine who de tief bin. Who acts: you, es, nobody. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, with its dependen
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 51

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Eh call een eh fren fuh consult, but es de body done strip, an eh head done cut off an gone, nobody could mek up eh mine who de tief bin.

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**Who acts:** you, es, nobody · **What happens:** call, consult, do, strip, cut off, mek up · **To what, where:** een eh, eh head, mine · **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 (you, es, nobody), 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:pg76586:7:51
# text = Eh call een eh fren fuh consult, but es de body done strip, an eh head done cut off an gone, nobody could mek up eh mine who de tief bin.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	fren	fren	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	consult	consult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	xcomp	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	mek	mek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	conj	_	_
33	tief	tief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | imperative | you *not said here* | een eh |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent eh=Recipient |
| 2 | **consult** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **strip** |  | es |  |  |  |  | a eh head *appos* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | participle |  | a eh head *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **cut off** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 7 | **mek up** | could | nobody | mine |  |  |  |  | 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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