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title: Eh yent hab dem long yez an big yeye fuh nuttne. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh yent hab dem long yez an big yeye fuh nuttne. 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 138

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Eh yent hab dem long yez an big yeye fuh nuttne.

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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: 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:pg76586:11:138
# text = Eh yent hab dem long yez an big yeye fuh nuttne.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	yent	yent	X	FW	_	4	compound	_	_
3	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	yez	yez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	dep	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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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