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title: Eh tek de Ring an eh mix um long cornflour, an eh poke em een de tuk… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh tek de Ring an eh mix um long cornflour, an eh poke em een de tukrey-gobbler craw. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, 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 7, sentence 26

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Eh tek de Ring an eh mix um long cornflour, an eh poke em een de tukrey-gobbler craw.

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**To what, where:** Eh tek

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg76586:7:26
# text = Eh tek de Ring an eh mix um long cornflour, an eh poke em een de tukrey-gobbler craw.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	mix	mix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cornflour	cornflour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	poke	poke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	em	em	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	10	appos	_	_
16	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	goeswith	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat	_	_
18	tukrey	tukrey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	gobbler	gobbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	craw	craw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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