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title: Eh tired befo eh retch de middle er de fiel. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh tired befo eh retch de middle er de fiel. 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 78

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Eh tired befo eh retch de middle er de fiel.

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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: 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:pg76586:4:78
# text = Eh tired befo eh retch de middle er de fiel.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	befo	befo	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	retch	retch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	er	er	X	FW	_	10	compound	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
10	fiel	fiel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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