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title: Eh see de King Crab duh squat een de water duh bottom er de boat. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh see de King Crab duh squat een de water duh bottom er de boat. Who acts: Eh, de. 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 69

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Eh see de King Crab duh squat een de water duh bottom er de boat.

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**Who acts:** Eh, de · **What happens:** see, er · **To what, where:** de, boat

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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, de), 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:pg76586:2:69
# text = Eh see de King Crab duh squat een de water duh bottom er de boat.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Crab	Crab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	squat	squat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	nsubj	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Eh | de |  |  |  | Crab squat and duh bottom er *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer de=Stimulus |
| 2 | **er** |  | de | de's boat |  |  |  | water *nsubj* | 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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