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title: Eh tek out de good fish, eh tring um on a mash grass, an eh lef in d… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh tek out de good fish, eh tring um on a mash grass, an eh lef in de boat some leely gannet-mullet an catfish wuh eh no want, an one big King Crab wuh eh bin ketch duh ribber. Who acts: Eh, tring, one big Crab. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 62

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Eh tek out de good fish, eh tring um on a mash grass, an eh lef in de boat some leely gannet-mullet an catfish wuh eh no want, an one big King Crab wuh eh bin ketch duh ribber.

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**Who acts:** Eh, tring, one big Crab · **What happens:** tek out, tre, boat, ketch · **To what, where:** um, mash grass, leely gannet mullet

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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 (Eh, tring, one big Crab), 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:pg76586:2:62
# text = Eh tek out de good fish, eh tring um on a mash grass, an eh lef in de boat some leely gannet-mullet an catfish wuh eh no want, an one big King Crab wuh eh bin ketch duh ribber.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tek	tek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	de	de	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
8	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
9	tring	tre	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	csubj	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	mash	mash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	lef	lef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	boat	boat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
23	leely	leely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	gannet	gannet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	mullet	mullet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	catfish	catfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
29	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
30	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
36	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:desc	_	_
38	Crab	Crab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
39	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	42	discourse	_	_
40	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
43	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	44	discourse	_	_
44	ribber	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tek out** | infinitive | Eh |  |  |  |  | de good fish | tree rules |
| 2 | **tre** | gerund |  | um |  | a mash grass |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **boat** | present | tring | some leely gannet mullet |  |  |  |  | vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mullet=Theme |
| 4 | **ketch** |  | one big Crab  King |  |  |  |  | ribber *conj* | tree rules |

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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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