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title: De mo eh study bout um de slower eh wuk. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De mo eh study bout um de slower eh wuk. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5, 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 5, sentence 130

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De mo eh study bout um de slower eh wuk.

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**To what, where:** eh bout um

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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 5. 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:pg76586:5:130
# text = De mo eh study bout um de slower eh wuk.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	mo	MO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	de	de	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	slower	slow	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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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