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title: Eh foot yent long nough fuh pick de claw out. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh foot yent long nough fuh pick de claw out. Who acts: Eh foot yent. 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 7

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Eh foot yent long nough fuh pick de claw out.

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**Who acts:** Eh foot yent · **What happens:** pick out · **To what, where:** de claw

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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 foot yent), 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:pg76586:3:7
# text = Eh foot yent long nough fuh pick de claw out.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	nough	nough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	pick	pick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
9	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick out** | present | Eh foot yent and long nough fuh | de claw |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=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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