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title: Eh come; an den eh Mossa say: “Ole man, we sen fuh you fuh tell we w… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh come; an den eh Mossa say: “Ole man, we sen fuh you fuh tell we wuh day een dis barrel.” Who acts: Eh, den eh, we, fuh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8, 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 8, sentence 112

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Eh come; an den eh Mossa say: “Ole man, we sen fuh you fuh tell we wuh day een dis barrel.”

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**Who acts:** Eh, den eh, we, fuh · **What happens:** come, say, sen, tell · **To what, where:** Ole man, you, day dis barrel, we · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh, den eh, we, fuh), 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:pg76586:8:112
# text = Eh come; an den eh Mossa say: “Ole man, we sen fuh you fuh tell we wuh day een dis barrel.”
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sen	sen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
18	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
19	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
23	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	flat	_	_
24	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a den eh | Ole man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sen** *in a quote* | present | we | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | fuh | day dis barrel | we |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |

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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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