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title: Eh can lick all dem tarruh rooster; an jist es soon es eh mek motion… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh can lick all dem tarruh rooster; an jist es soon es eh mek motion at dem, dem run. Who acts: Eh. 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 14

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Eh can lick all dem tarruh rooster; an jist es soon es eh mek motion at dem, dem run.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** lick · **To what, where:** tarruh rooster

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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), 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:pg76586:6:14
# text = Eh can lick all dem tarruh rooster; an jist es soon es eh mek motion at dem, dem run.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lick	lick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
5	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	rooster	rooster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	jist	jist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
15	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	motion	motion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lick** | can | Eh | all tarruh rooster |  |  |  | a jist es and es  mek motion at dem and dem run *obj* | 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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