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title: Eh farruh an eh bredder tell um fuh tan back an leh de gal lone. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh farruh an eh bredder tell um fuh tan back an leh de gal lone. Who acts: Eh, um fuh. 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 86

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Eh farruh an eh bredder tell um fuh tan back an leh de gal lone.

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**Who acts:** Eh, um fuh · **What happens:** tell, tan back · **To what, where:** gal lone · **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, um fuh), 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:pg76586:8:86
# text = Eh farruh an eh bredder tell um fuh tan back an leh de gal lone.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bredder	bredder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tan	tan	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	leh	leh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	gal	gal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	lone	lone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tan back** | present | um fuh | a gal lone |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lone=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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