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title: Den eh tek eh knife an eh cut off big piece, an eh pit um one side a… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh tek eh knife an eh cut off big piece, an eh pit um one side an eh say dis fuh de jedge. Who acts: eh. 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 40

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Den eh tek eh knife an eh cut off big piece, an eh pit um one side an eh say dis fuh de jedge.

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**Who acts:** eh · **What happens:** cut off, say · **To what, where:** dis fuh, cut big piece · **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 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), 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:pg76586:5:40
# text = Den eh tek eh knife an eh cut off big piece, an eh pit um one side an eh say dis fuh de jedge.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	eh	eh	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
3	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	um	um	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
22	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	flat:foreign	_	_
25	jedge	jedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut off** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a eh | dis fuh and jedge |  |  |  | um one side | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fuh=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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