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title: Eh state off gen; eh tun back gen. Eh cant mek up eh mine which dinn… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh state off gen; eh tun back gen. Eh cant mek up eh mine which dinner fuh tek an which dinner fuh leff. Who acts: dinner. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 124

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Eh state off gen; eh tun back gen. Eh cant mek up eh mine which dinner fuh tek an which dinner fuh leff.

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**Who acts:** dinner · **What happens:** tek · **To what, where:** dinner, tun Eh cant

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dinner), 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:pg76586:3:124
# text = Eh state off gen; eh tun back gen. Eh cant mek up eh mine which dinner fuh tek an which dinner fuh leff.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	gen.	Gen.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	cant	cant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
16	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	17	det	_	_
17	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	tek	tek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	22	det	_	_
22	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
24	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tek** | infinitive | which dinner | a dinner |  |  |  | leff *obl* | 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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