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title: Eh haffer stop fuh git tru dem tarruh bank er san wuh de edder nail… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh haffer stop fuh git tru dem tarruh bank er san wuh de edder nail bin mek, an so eh loss eh time an nebber did obertek eh wife. Who acts: Eh haffer, tru, de, nebber. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8, with its depen
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 78

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Eh haffer stop fuh git tru dem tarruh bank er san wuh de edder nail bin mek, an so eh loss eh time an nebber did obertek eh wife.

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**Who acts:** Eh haffer, tru, de, nebber · **What happens:** stop, bank, bin, do · **To what, where:** git, obertek eh wife

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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 haffer, tru, de, nebber), 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:pg76586:8:78
# text = Eh haffer stop fuh git tru dem tarruh bank er san wuh de edder nail bin mek, an so eh loss eh time an nebber did obertek eh wife.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	haffer	haffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
5	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	tru	tru	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	nsubj	_	_
7	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	er	er	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	san	san	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
12	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	nsubj	_	_
14	edder	edd	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
15	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	obj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	obertek	obertek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | Eh haffer | git |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bank** |  | tru |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bin** |  | de |  |  |  |  | mek *appos* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | past | a nebber | obertek eh wife |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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