---
title: Eh yent willin fuh go ter eh home an leff any behine. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh yent willin fuh go ter eh home an leff any behine. Who acts: Eh yent willin. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/150/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Negro myths from the Georgia coast, to…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/) / [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/) / 150

# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 150

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Eh yent willin fuh go ter eh home an leff any behine.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Eh yent willin · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** leff

<!-- .vabout -->
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: who acts (Eh yent willin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:5:150
# text = Eh yent willin fuh go ter eh home an leff any behine.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	yent	yent	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
3	willin	willin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	dep	_	_
7	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	behine	behine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | infinitive | Eh yent willin | a leff |  |  |  | any behine *obl:unmarked*; home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/149/)
- next →: [sentence 151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/151/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/)