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title: Eh knock ter de do. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh knock ter de do. Who acts: you, ter. 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 79

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Eh knock ter de do.

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**Who acts:** you, ter · **What happens:** knock, do · **To what, where:** ter

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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 (you, ter), 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:pg76586:5:79
# text = Eh knock ter de do.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	knock	knock	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	flat:foreign	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | imperative | you *not said here* | ter |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ter=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | present | ter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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