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title: Eh git skade, an tink duh Sperit. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh git skade, an tink duh Sperit. Who acts: Eh git skade. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, 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 6, sentence 119

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Eh git skade, an tink duh Sperit.

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**Who acts:** Eh git skade · **What happens:** tink · **To what, where:** Sperit, Eh git skade

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh git skade), 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:pg76586:6:119
# text = Eh git skade, an tink duh Sperit.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	skade	skade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tink	tink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	Sperit	Sperit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tink** | present | Eh git skade *not said here* | Sperit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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