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title: Eh holler, but eh couldnt git out. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh holler, but eh couldnt git out. 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 36

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Eh holler, but eh couldnt git out.

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**To what, where:** Eh holler

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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:pg76586:11:36
# text = Eh holler, but eh couldnt git out.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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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