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title: Eh gone right up ter de bag, an eh gen um er nasty cut. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh gone right up ter de bag, an eh gen um er nasty cut. Who acts: Eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, 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 11, sentence 120

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Eh gone right up ter de bag, an eh gen um er nasty cut.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** ter bag

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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 11. 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:pg76586:11:120
# text = Eh gone right up ter de bag, an eh gen um er nasty cut.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	right	right	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	ter	ter	X	FW	_	7	compound	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | participle | Eh |  |  | ter bag and a eh gen um |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme up bag=Initial\_Location |

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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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