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title: Eh crawl up, an eh leddown dist onder de winder, way him kin yeddy a… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh crawl up, an eh leddown dist onder de winder, way him kin yeddy all de wud wuh talk in de house. Who acts: Eh. 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 142

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Eh crawl up, an eh leddown dist onder de winder, way him kin yeddy all de wud wuh talk in de house.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** crawl up

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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 (Eh), 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:pg76586:4:142
# text = Eh crawl up, an eh leddown dist onder de winder, way him kin yeddy all de wud wuh talk in de house.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crawl	crawl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	leddown	leddown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dist	dist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
9	onder	onder	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	de	de	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	winder	winder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	kin	kin	X	GW	_	13	appos	_	_
16	yeddy	yeddy	X	NN	_	15	goeswith	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	flat	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat	_	_
19	wud	wud	X	GW	_	15	flat	_	_
20	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
21	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crawl up** | present | Eh |  |  |  |  | a eh leddown dist de winder and way *parataxis* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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