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title: Wen eh der eat dem crab, one er de claw fastne in him rotten teet, a… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh der eat dem crab, one er de claw fastne in him rotten teet, and hot um so bad eh mek um holler. Who acts: Wen eh der. 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 clau
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 5

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Wen eh der eat dem crab, one er de claw fastne in him rotten teet, and hot um so bad eh mek um holler.

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**Who acts:** Wen eh der · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** dem crab

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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 (Wen eh der), 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:pg76586:3:5
# text = Wen eh der eat dem crab, one er de claw fastne in him rotten teet, and hot um so bad eh mek um holler.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	der	der	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
11	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	fastne	fastne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	teet	teet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
23	eh	eh	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Wen eh der | dem crab |  |  |  | hot um *obl* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crab=Patient |

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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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