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title: Eh yen gwine tek long. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh yen gwine tek long. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12, 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 12, sentence 134

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Eh yen gwine tek long.

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**To what, where:** yen gwine tek

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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 12. 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:pg76586:12:134
# text = Eh yen gwine tek long.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	yen	yen	X	FW	_	4	compound	_	_
3	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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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