--- title: Eh hab sich er good manners, an eh talk so perlite, an eh ack so ric… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics description: Eh hab sich er good manners, an eh talk so perlite, an eh ack so rich, ebry body gie way ter um, an eh outshine all dem tarruh Buckra wuh bin er cote de gal, an eh marry um befo de week out, an eh tek um een eh carriage, an eh dribe um off ter him house. Who acts: Eh hab sich, bin. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh hab sich, bin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg76586:8:30 # text = Eh hab sich er good manners, an eh talk so perlite, an eh ack so rich, ebry body gie way ter um, an eh outshine all dem tarruh Buckra wuh bin er cote de gal, an eh marry um befo de week out, an eh tek um een eh carriage, an eh dribe um off ter him house. 1 Eh Eh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 hab hab NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 sich sich NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 4 er er ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 manners manners NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 eh eh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 11 so so SCONJ IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 perlite perlite NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 eh eh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 ack ack NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 ebry ebry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 22 gie gie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 23 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 ter ter X FW _ 25 compound _ _ 25 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 eh eh NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 outshine outshine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 30 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 31 dem dem NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 tarruh tarruh INTJ UH _ 33 discourse _ _ 33 Buckra Buckra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 34 wuh wuh INTJ UH _ 35 discourse _ _ 35 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 36 er e ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 amod _ _ 37 cote cote NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 38 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 gal gal NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 eh eh NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 appos _ _ 43 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 44 um um X FW _ 45 compound _ _ 45 befo befo NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 47 compound _ _ 47 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod:unmarked _ _ 48 out out ADP RP _ 45 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 50 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 51 eh eh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 52 tek tek NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 compound _ _ 53 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ _ 54 een een NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 53 list _ _ 55 eh eh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 carriage carriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 58 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 59 eh eh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 60 dribe dribe NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 compound _ _ 61 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ _ 62 off off ADP RP _ 61 compound:prt _ _ 63 ter ter ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 64 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 61 nmod _ _ 65 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gie** | infinitive | Eh hab sich good manners and a eh talk so perlite | way ter um and a eh | | | | Buckra *obl* | tree rules | | 2 | **outshine** | infinitive | Eh hab sich good manners and a eh talk so perlite *not said here* | all dem | | | | | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dem=Theme | | 3 | **marry** | infinitive | bin | um befo de week and a eh tek um and a eh dribe um ter eh and house | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent befo=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/8/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/8/31/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/8/)