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title: Wid dat, eh mek eh lick fuh chop de snake head off. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wid dat, eh mek eh lick fuh chop de snake head off. Who acts: mek 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 165

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Wid dat, eh mek eh lick fuh chop de snake head off.

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**Who acts:** mek eh · **What happens:** lick off · **To what, where:** Wid dat

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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 (mek 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:pg76586:4:165
# text = Wid dat, eh mek eh lick fuh chop de snake head off.
1	Wid	Wid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
5	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lick	lick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chop	chop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	dep	_	_
11	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lick off** | present | mek eh | Wid dat |  |  |  | snake head *obl*; fuh chop *obj* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent chop=Source |

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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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