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title: Eh see how hard eh wuk an how little eh mek, and eh tek pity on um. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh see how hard eh wuk an how little eh mek, and eh tek pity on um. Who acts: you. 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 120

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Eh see how hard eh wuk an how little eh mek, and eh tek pity on um.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** hard eh wuk

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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 (you), 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:pg76586:4:120
# text = Eh see how hard eh wuk an how little eh mek, and eh tek pity on um.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	eh	eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
15	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | hard eh wuk |  |  |  | tek pity on um *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wuk=Stimulus |

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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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