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title: Befo eh kin answer, eh tell um fuh git right een de carriage an go b… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Befo eh kin answer, eh tell um fuh git right een de carriage an go back home long um. Who acts: Befo. 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 82

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Befo eh kin answer, eh tell um fuh git right een de carriage an go back home long um.

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**Who acts:** Befo · **What happens:** tell, go back · **To what, where:** um, long um · **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 (Befo), 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:pg76586:8:82
# text = Befo eh kin answer, eh tell um fuh git right een de carriage an go back home long um.
1	Befo	Befo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	kin	kin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	right	right	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	amod	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat	_	_
14	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Befo | um |  |  |  | fuh git *obj*; een carriage *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go back** | present |  | long um |  |  |  | home *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

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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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