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title: Eh mek eh nes on one tall pine tree close de ribber, er de sea, way… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh mek eh nes on one tall pine tree close de ribber, er de sea, way nuttne kin git at um. 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 170

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Eh mek eh nes on one tall pine tree close de ribber, er de sea, way nuttne kin git at um.

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**To what, where:** Eh eh nes

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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:pg76586:5:170
# text = Eh mek eh nes on one tall pine tree close de ribber, er de sea, way nuttne kin git at um.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	nes	ne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
7	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
12	ribber	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	er	er	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	compound	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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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