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title: De minnit de King Crab fine isself in de ribber, eh loosne eh hole a… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De minnit de King Crab fine isself in de ribber, eh loosne eh hole an eh gone der bottom. 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 96

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De minnit de King Crab fine isself in de ribber, eh loosne eh hole an eh gone der bottom.

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**Who acts:** eh · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** der bottom, De minnit

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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:pg76586:2:96
# text = De minnit de King Crab fine isself in de ribber, eh loosne eh hole an eh gone der bottom.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	compound	_	_
2	minnit	minnit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	de	de	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Crab	Crab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	_
7	isself	isself	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ribber	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
13	loosne	loosne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	conj	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | participle | a eh *not said here* | der bottom |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bottom=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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