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title: Eh graff um an eh pit um een one crocus bag, an eh tie up de een er… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh graff um an eh pit um een one crocus bag, an eh tie up de een er de bag tight, an eh heng um on one tree lim, an eh gone home fuh git eh lash fuh lick Buh Rabbit. Who acts: Eh graff, eh, eh heng um. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jone
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 95

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Eh graff um an eh pit um een one crocus bag, an eh tie up de een er de bag tight, an eh heng um on one tree lim, an eh gone home fuh git eh lash fuh lick Buh Rabbit.

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**Who acts:** Eh graff, eh, eh heng um · **What happens:** tie up, go, lash, lick · **To what, where:** de, fuh git eh, Buh Rabbit

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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 graff, eh, eh heng um), 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:pg76586:11:95
# text = Eh graff um an eh pit um een one crocus bag, an eh tie up de een er de bag tight, an eh heng um on one tree lim, an eh gone home fuh git eh lash fuh lick Buh Rabbit.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	graff	graff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	um	um	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	crocus	crocus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
15	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	obl	_	_
18	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	flat:foreign	_	_
19	er	er	X	FW	_	21	compound	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	flat:foreign	_	_
21	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
22	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	heng	heng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
30	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	lim	lim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
35	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	home	home	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	lash	lash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
41	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	42	discourse	_	_
42	lick	lick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
43	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie up** | infinitive | Eh graff um a eh pit um and a eh | de |  |  |  | er bag *obj* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | participle | a eh *not said here* | fuh git eh |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lash** | present | a eh heng um on one tree lim |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lick** | infinitive | a eh heng um on one tree lim *not said here* | Buh Rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent rabbit=Source |

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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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