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title: Ebry low tide de Ole Man tek eh leely waggin an wisit eh trap, an co… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ebry low tide de Ole Man tek eh leely waggin an wisit eh trap, an collec de fish an pit um een eh waggin an cahr um home fuh him an eh fambly fuh eat. 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 dependen
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 140

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Ebry low tide de Ole Man tek eh leely waggin an wisit eh trap, an collec de fish an pit um een eh waggin an cahr um home fuh him an eh fambly fuh eat.

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**Who acts:** eh · **What happens:** waggin, eat · **To what, where:** eh trap, Ebry low tide

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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:pg76586:9:140
# text = Ebry low tide de Ole Man tek eh leely waggin an wisit eh trap, an collec de fish an pit um een eh waggin an cahr um home fuh him an eh fambly fuh eat.
1	Ebry	Ebry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	eh	eh	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	7	appos	_	_
9	leely	leely	X	RB	_	8	goeswith	_	_
10	waggin	waggin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	wisit	wisit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	collec	collec	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	flat	_	_
24	eh	eh	X	GW	_	19	appos	_	_
25	waggin	waggin	X	NN	_	24	goeswith	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	cahr	cahr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
29	home	home	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
30	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	goeswith	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
34	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	36	discourse	_	_
36	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waggin** | gerund |  | a eh trap |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | infinitive | a eh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fambly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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