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title: Eh dat greedy eh duh hunt fuh mo. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh dat greedy eh duh hunt fuh mo. Who acts: Eh. 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 68

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Eh dat greedy eh duh hunt fuh mo.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** dat, hunt · **To what, where:** greedy eh, mo

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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), 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:pg76586:2:68
# text = Eh dat greedy eh duh hunt fuh mo.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dat	dat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	eh	eh	X	GW	_	2	obj	_	_
5	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dat** | past | Eh | greedy eh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hunt** | infinitive | Eh *not said here* | mo |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mo=Theme |

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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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