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title: Eh gone home dat bex an hongry eh ready fuh kill ehself. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh gone home dat bex an hongry eh ready fuh kill ehself. 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 140

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Eh gone home dat bex an hongry eh ready fuh kill ehself.

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**What happens:** kill · **To what, where:** ehself

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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: 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:pg76586:3:140
# text = Eh gone home dat bex an hongry eh ready fuh kill ehself.
1	Eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	dat	dat	X	GW	_	2	vocative	_	_
5	bex	bex	X	NN	_	4	goeswith	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hongry	hongry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
9	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | infinitive |  | ehself |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ehself=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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