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title: Eh fine one crotch, an eh seddown duh pant an der cry. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh fine one crotch, an eh seddown duh pant an der cry. Who acts: Eh, eh seddown. 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 89

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Eh fine one crotch, an eh seddown duh pant an der cry.

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**Who acts:** Eh, eh seddown · **What happens:** fine, pant · **To what, where:** one crotch, der cry

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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, eh seddown), 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:pg76586:4:89
# text = Eh fine one crotch, an eh seddown duh pant an der cry.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fine	fine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	crotch	crotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	seddown	seddown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	pant	pant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fine** | past | Eh | one crotch |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent crotch=Recipient |
| 2 | **pant** | infinitive | a eh seddown *not said here* | a der cry |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Topic |

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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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