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title: Eh quaintun wid de place way Buh Elephunt blan leddown fuh tek eh re… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh quaintun wid de place way Buh Elephunt blan leddown fuh tek eh res; so eh watch um, an wen eh done gone der bed, Buh Rabbit, him slip back an eh call eh wife, and dem gedder dry leaf an dead grass, an dem tote um ter de spot way Buh Elephunt duh sleep, an dem full all two Buh Elephunt yez long de
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 23

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Eh quaintun wid de place way Buh Elephunt blan leddown fuh tek eh res; so eh watch um, an wen eh done gone der bed, Buh Rabbit, him slip back an eh call eh wife, and dem gedder dry leaf an dead grass, an dem tote um ter de spot way Buh Elephunt duh sleep, an dem full all two Buh Elephunt yez long de leaf an grass.

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**Who acts:** wen eh, eh · **What happens:** do, slip back · **To what, where:** gone der bed, eh call

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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 (wen eh, 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:pg76586:9:23
# text = Eh quaintun wid de place way Buh Elephunt blan leddown fuh tek eh res; so eh watch um, an wen eh done gone der bed, Buh Rabbit, him slip back an eh call eh wife, and dem gedder dry leaf an dead grass, an dem tote um ter de spot way Buh Elephunt duh sleep, an dem full all two Buh Elephunt yez long de leaf an grass.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	quaintun	quaintun	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	advmod	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	Elephunt	Elephunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	blan	blan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	leddown	leddown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	res	re	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
24	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	back	back	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
43	gedder	gedd	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	42	amod	_	_
44	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	advcl	_	_
46	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	tote	tote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	appos	_	_
53	um	um	X	FW	_	54	compound	_	_
54	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	appos	_	_
55	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	54	flat:foreign	_	_
56	spot	spot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	_
58	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	appos	_	_
59	Elephunt	Elephunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	flat	_	_
60	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	61	discourse	_	_
61	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
63	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	appos	_	_
65	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
66	all	all	ADV	RB	_	69	advmod	_	_
67	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	69	nummod	_	_
68	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	69	compound	_	_
69	Elephunt	Elephunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	nmod	_	_
70	yez	yez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	69	dep	_	_
71	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	73	amod	_	_
72	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	73	compound	_	_
73	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	appos	_	_
74	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	75	det	_	_
75	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle | a wen eh *not said here* | gone der bed |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Eventuality |
| 2 | **slip back** | present | eh | a eh call |  |  |  | eh wife *obl* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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