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title: Eh fly off wid um to one big oak tree, an eh pick eh bone clean. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh fly off wid um to one big oak tree, an eh pick eh bone clean. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 2, 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 2, sentence 49

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Eh fly off wid um to one big oak tree, an eh pick eh bone clean.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** fly off · **To what, where:** wid um

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg76586:2:49
# text = Eh fly off wid um to one big oak tree, an eh pick eh bone clean.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	fly	fly	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	pick	pick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly off** | imperative | you *not said here* | wid um |  |  |  | to one big oak tree and a eh eh bone *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result |

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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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