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title: Eh notus eh crap, an de Groun-mole duh eat um wus den nebber. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh notus eh crap, an de Groun-mole duh eat um wus den nebber. Who acts: mole duh. 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 61

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Eh notus eh crap, an de Groun-mole duh eat um wus den nebber.

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**Who acts:** mole duh · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** Eh notus

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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 (mole duh), 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:pg76586:6:61
# text = Eh notus eh crap, an de Groun-mole duh eat um wus den nebber.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	notus	notus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	crap	crap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	de	de	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Groun	Groun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	duh	duh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	wus	wus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | a mole duh | Eh notus  eh crap |  |  |  | den nebber *obj* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nebber=Patient |

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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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