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title: De King pick um up, an eh dead in eh han. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De King pick um up, an eh dead in eh han. 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 7

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De King pick um up, an eh dead in eh han.

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**To what, where:** King pick um

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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:pg76586:7:7
# text = De King pick um up, an eh dead in eh han.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	pick	pick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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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