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title: Eh yent see nuttne nigh um ceptin de nekked rock wuh eh duh leddown… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh yent see nuttne nigh um ceptin de nekked rock wuh eh duh leddown on. Who acts: Eh yent. 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 8

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Eh yent see nuttne nigh um ceptin de nekked rock wuh eh duh leddown on.

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**Who acts:** Eh yent · **What happens:** see on · **To what, where:** nuttne

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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 yent), 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:pg76586:4:8
# text = Eh yent see nuttne nigh um ceptin de nekked rock wuh eh duh leddown on.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	ceptin	ceptin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
9	nekked	nekked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
12	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
13	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	leddown	leddown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	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 | **see on** | infinitive | Eh yent | nuttne and um ceptin and nekked rock |  |  |  | leddown *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nuttne=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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