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title: Ebry ting gone long berry well fur some time, an de noung wife hab e… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ebry ting gone long berry well fur some time, an de noung wife hab ebry ting him call fur. Who acts: ting. 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 36

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Ebry ting gone long berry well fur some time, an de noung wife hab ebry ting him call fur.

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**Who acts:** ting · **What happens:** go, call · **To what, where:** fur, gone long berry · **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 (ting), 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:pg76586:8:36
# text = Ebry ting gone long berry well fur some time, an de noung wife hab ebry ting him call fur.
1	Ebry	ebry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
13	noung	noung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
16	ebry	ebry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | present | ting | fur |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fur=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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