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title: Eh yent hab nobody fuh truss fuh sen ter eh farruh an bredder fuh co… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh yent hab nobody fuh truss fuh sen ter eh farruh an bredder fuh come an tek um way. Who acts: sen ter. 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 46

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Eh yent hab nobody fuh truss fuh sen ter eh farruh an bredder fuh come an tek um way.

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**Who acts:** sen ter · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** tek um way, fuh truss fuh

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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 (sen ter), 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:pg76586:8:46
# text = Eh yent hab nobody fuh truss fuh sen ter eh farruh an bredder fuh come an tek um way.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	yent	yent	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
3	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	truss	truss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	sen	sen	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	_
9	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	nsubj	_	_
10	eh	eh	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	_
11	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	bredder	bredder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	um	um	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | sen ter | a tek um way |  |  |  | a bredder fuh *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |

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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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