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title: Eh tek um ter one tree wuh hab holler on one side, but wuh shet up o… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh tek um ter one tree wuh hab holler on one side, but wuh shet up on tarruh side, an eh tell Buh Wolf say dat tree full er honey, an eh mus git een an crawl up nigh de top es eh could go. Who acts: Buh, dat tree, top es. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 94

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Eh tek um ter one tree wuh hab holler on one side, but wuh shet up on tarruh side, an eh tell Buh Wolf say dat tree full er honey, an eh mus git een an crawl up nigh de top es eh could go.

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**Who acts:** Buh, dat tree, top es · **What happens:** shet up, say, crawl up, go · **To what, where:** side, eh tell, hab holler · **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 (Buh, dat tree, top es), 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:pg76586:9:94
# text = Eh tek um ter one tree wuh hab holler on one side, but wuh shet up on tarruh side, an eh tell Buh Wolf say dat tree full er honey, an eh mus git een an crawl up nigh de top es eh could go.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
8	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	shet	shet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	tarruh	tarruh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
20	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
25	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
30	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	er	er	X	FW	_	32	compound	_	_
32	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	mus	mus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
38	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	flat	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	crawl	crawl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
43	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
44	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
46	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
47	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shet up** | infinitive |  |  |  | side |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Buh | a eh tell *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **crawl up** | present | dat tree and full er honey and a eh mus git |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | could | de's top es |  |  |  |  | nigh *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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