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title: Eh fine eh yent de man wid de bigges belly wuh kin eat de longes. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh fine eh yent de man wid de bigges belly wuh kin eat de longes. Who acts: kin. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4, 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 4, sentence 112

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Eh fine eh yent de man wid de bigges belly wuh kin eat de longes.

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**Who acts:** kin · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** de longes, fine eh

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kin), 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:pg76586:4:112
# text = Eh fine eh yent de man wid de bigges belly wuh kin eat de longes.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	eh	eh	PROPN	GW	Typo=Yes	0	root	_	_
4	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
7	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
9	bigges	bigge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	compound	_	_
10	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
11	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
12	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
14	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	longes	longe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | kin | de longes |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longe=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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