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title: De ting hot de animel so bad, eh jump, an eh pitch, an eh kick up. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De ting hot de animel so bad, eh jump, an eh pitch, an eh kick up. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, 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 10, sentence 98

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De ting hot de animel so bad, eh jump, an eh pitch, an eh kick up.

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**What happens:** kick up · **To what, where:** hot de animel

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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 10. 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:pg76586:10:98
# text = De ting hot de animel so bad, eh jump, an eh pitch, an eh kick up.
1	De	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
5	animel	animel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	kick	kick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | a eh *compound* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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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