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title: De Squirle fetch eh hickry not an eh acorn. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Squirle fetch eh hickry not an eh acorn. 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 62

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De Squirle fetch eh hickry not an eh acorn.

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**To what, where:** fetch eh hickry

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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:pg76586:5:62
# text = De Squirle fetch eh hickry not an eh acorn.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Squirle	Squirle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	fetch	fetch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	hickry	hickry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	acorn	acorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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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