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title: Eh lub fuh lib close big road an settlement, way him kin quaintun wi… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh lub fuh lib close big road an settlement, way him kin quaintun wid all wuh happne, an pick eh chance fuh mek eh libbin easy. Who acts: Eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 136

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Eh lub fuh lib close big road an settlement, way him kin quaintun wid all wuh happne, an pick eh chance fuh mek eh libbin easy.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** lub · **To what, where:** fuh lib

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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), 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:pg76586:9:136
# text = Eh lub fuh lib close big road an settlement, way him kin quaintun wid all wuh happne, an pick eh chance fuh mek eh libbin easy.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lub	lub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lib	lib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	kin	kin	X	GW	_	11	appos	_	_
14	quaintun	quaintun	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat	_	_
15	wid	wid	X	JJ	_	13	goeswith	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	wuh	wuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	happne	happne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	pick	pick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
24	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
25	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	eh	eh	X	FW	_	27	compound	_	_
27	libbin	libbin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lub** | past | Eh | fuh lib and close big road  a settlement and way and a eh chance |  |  |  |  | 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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