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title: Eh gaff um, eh pick um een eh back, eh knock um ober, an eh run um o… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh gaff um, eh pick um een eh back, eh knock um ober, an eh run um out de yad. 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 18

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Eh gaff um, eh pick um een eh back, eh knock um ober, an eh run um out de yad.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** pick, knock out · **To what, where:** um, um ober

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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:pg76586:6:18
# text = Eh gaff um, eh pick um een eh back, eh knock um ober, an eh run um out de yad.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	gaff	gaff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	um	um	X	FW	_	15	compound	_	_
15	ober	ober	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	compound	_	_
23	yad	yad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | infinitive | Eh | um |  |  |  | een eh *obj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent um=Beneficiary eh=Theme |
| 2 | **knock out** | infinitive | Eh *not said here* | um ober |  |  |  | de yad *obj* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ober=Destination yad=Theme |

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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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