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title: Eh pass de time er day berry perlite wid um, an arterwards eh bet de… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh pass de time er day berry perlite wid um, an arterwards eh bet de snake say him yent bin es long as de stick wuh him hab een him han. Who acts: Eh, de time, de snake. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, with its dep
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 111

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Eh pass de time er day berry perlite wid um, an arterwards eh bet de snake say him yent bin es long as de stick wuh him hab een him han.

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**Who acts:** Eh, de time, de snake · **What happens:** pass, um, say, een · **To what, where:** eh, 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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh, de time, de snake), 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:pg76586:9:111
# text = Eh pass de time er day berry perlite wid um, an arterwards eh bet de snake say him yent bin es long as de stick wuh him hab een him han.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	compound	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	er	er	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	perlite	perlite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	arterwards	arterwards	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
17	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	hab	hab	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	een	een	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | present | Eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **um** |  | de time |  |  |  |  | a eh bet *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | de snake | eh |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 4 | **een** | past | eh | um |  |  |  | han *obj*; hab *property* | tree rules |

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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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