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title: Eh fambly stonish fuh see um, an wen eh tell dem wuh mek eh come bac… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh fambly stonish fuh see um, an wen eh tell dem wuh mek eh come back, eh farruh an eh bredder git dem gun fur shoot de Debble ef eh come fuh tek de gal back. Who acts: Eh, wen eh, mek eh, eh fur shoot. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jon
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 72

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Eh fambly stonish fuh see um, an wen eh tell dem wuh mek eh come back, eh farruh an eh bredder git dem gun fur shoot de Debble ef eh come fuh tek de gal back.

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**Who acts:** Eh, wen eh, mek eh, eh fur shoot · **What happens:** stonish, see, tell, come back, come · **To what, where:** fuh, um, dem, fuh de gal · **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 (Eh, wen eh, mek eh, eh fur shoot), 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:pg76586:8:72
# text = Eh fambly stonish fuh see um, an wen eh tell dem wuh mek eh come back, eh farruh an eh bredder git dem gun fur shoot de Debble ef eh come fuh tek de gal back.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	stonish	stonish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
14	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
20	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
22	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
23	bredder	bredder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	shoot	shoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
29	de	de	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	Debble	Debble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
33	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
34	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
35	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	gal	gal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	back	back	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stonish** | present | Eh | fuh |  |  |  | fambly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | Eh *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer um=Stimulus |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a wen eh | dem |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dem=Recipient |
| 4 | **come back** | present | mek eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | present | a eh fur shoot de Debble ef eh | fuh de gal |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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