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title: Eh skade so tell eh scacely kin keep eh seat. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh skade so tell eh scacely kin keep eh seat. 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 90

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Eh skade so tell eh scacely kin keep eh seat.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** skade, tell, keep · **To what, where:** eh, seat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg76586:4:90
# text = Eh skade so tell eh scacely kin keep eh seat.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	skade	skade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	eh	eh	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	scacely	scacely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	kin	kin	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skade** | past | Eh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Eh *not said here* | eh |  |  |  | scacely *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent eh=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **keep** *not said to happen* | infinitive | eh *not said here* | eh seat |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=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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