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title: Eh cant do nuttne cept open eh jaw an moan. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh cant do nuttne cept open eh jaw an moan. Who acts: Eh cant. 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 6

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Eh cant do nuttne cept open eh jaw an moan.

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**Who acts:** Eh cant · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** cept eh jaw

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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 cant), 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:pg76586:3:6
# text = Eh cant do nuttne cept open eh jaw an moan.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cant	cant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nuttne	nuttne	X	FW	_	5	compound	_	_
5	cept	cept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	jaw	jaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	moan	moan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | Eh cant | cept eh jaw |  |  |  | a moan *obl:unmarked* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaw=Eventuality |

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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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