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title: Eh hop off an mek fuh John Bay house fuh git de tarruh dinner. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh hop off an mek fuh John Bay house fuh git de tarruh dinner. 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.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 134

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Eh hop off an mek fuh John Bay house fuh git de tarruh dinner.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** hop off · **To what, where:** mek fuh

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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 (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:pg76586:3:134
# text = Eh hop off an mek fuh John Bay house fuh git de tarruh dinner.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hop	hop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	_
13	tarruh	tarruh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hop off** | present | Eh | a mek fuh |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fuh=Trajectory |

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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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