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title: Soon es eh git outer de sight er de house, de good horse eh men eh p… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon es eh git outer de sight er de house, de good horse eh men eh pace; an, befo de middle er de day, eh tell eh missis fuh drap one er dem nail een de road. Who acts: es, sight er house, eh missis. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones,
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 67

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Soon es eh git outer de sight er de house, de good horse eh men eh pace; an, befo de middle er de day, eh tell eh missis fuh drap one er dem nail een de road.

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**Who acts:** es, sight er house, eh missis · **What happens:** house, tell, drap · **To what, where:** eh missis, one dem nail · **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 (es, sight er house, eh missis), 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:pg76586:8:67
# text = Soon es eh git outer de sight er de house, de good horse eh men eh pace; an, befo de middle er de day, eh tell eh missis fuh drap one er dem nail een de road.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
2	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
8	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	amod	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	conj	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	flat:foreign	_	_
24	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	amod	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	flat:foreign	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
29	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
30	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
31	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	missis	missis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
34	drap	drap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
36	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
39	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	flat	_	_
40	de	de	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **house** |  | es |  |  |  |  | eh git *nsubj*; a befo  er day *conj*; soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | sight er house and a befo  er day | eh missis |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent missis=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **drap** *not said to happen* | infinitive | eh missis *not said here* | one dem nail |  |  |  | de road | 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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