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title: Eh so greedy eh couldnt mek up eh mine which dinner fuh tek. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh so greedy eh couldnt mek up eh mine which dinner fuh tek. 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 138

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Eh so greedy eh couldnt mek up eh mine which dinner fuh tek.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** mek up · **To what, where:** mine

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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:pg76586:3:138
# text = Eh so greedy eh couldnt mek up eh mine which dinner fuh tek.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	eh	eh	X	FW	_	5	compound	_	_
5	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	mek	mek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
10	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	11	det	_	_
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
13	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mek up** | present | Eh | mine |  |  |  | greedy eh couldnt *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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