---
title: Eh tek tarruh road; eh come back ter de fork; eh tan day gen. Eh sta… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh tek tarruh road; eh come back ter de fork; eh tan day gen. Eh state off; eh tun back. Who acts: eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/3/123/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Negro myths from the Georgia coast, to…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/) / [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/3/) / 123

# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 123

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Eh tek tarruh road; eh come back ter de fork; eh tan day gen. Eh state off; eh tun back.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** eh · **What happens:** come back · **To what, where:** ter, tek tarruh road

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3. 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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:3:123
# text = Eh tek tarruh road; eh come back ter de fork; eh tan day gen. Eh state off; eh tun back.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	_
11	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
14	tan	tan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
16	gen.	Gen.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
17	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | present | eh | ter and de fork |  |  |  | day Eh state *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ter=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/3/122/)
- next →: [sentence 124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/3/124/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/3/)