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title: So eh tek eh calabash an hop off fuh de spring. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: So eh tek eh calabash an hop off fuh de spring. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 282

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So eh tek eh calabash an hop off fuh de spring.

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**To what, where:** hop spring

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg76586:1:282
# text = So eh tek eh calabash an hop off fuh de spring.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
2	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	calabash	calabash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hop	hop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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