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title: Es eh done dat eh slip outer de wine, an leff Buh Wolf lone fuh pull… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Es eh done dat eh slip outer de wine, an leff Buh Wolf lone fuh pull genst Buh Porpus. Who acts: Es. 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 7

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Es eh done dat eh slip outer de wine, an leff Buh Wolf lone fuh pull genst Buh Porpus.

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**Who acts:** Es · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** eh slip

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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), 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:pg76586:8:7
# text = Es eh done dat eh slip outer de wine, an leff Buh Wolf lone fuh pull genst Buh Porpus.
1	Es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	dat	dat	PROPN	GW	Typo=Yes	3	obl:agent	_	_
5	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
9	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	lone	lone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	genst	genst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
19	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
20	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle | Es | eh slip and outer de wine and a leff |  |  |  | dat *obl:agent* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slip=Eventuality |

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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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