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title: Eh pit de key ter de hole an eh onlock de do, an wen eh open um lo!… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh pit de key ter de hole an eh onlock de do, an wen eh open um lo! an behole! eh see een de closet tree noung ooman duh heng up long dem neck, an dem bin all dead. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8, with its dependen
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 41

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Eh pit de key ter de hole an eh onlock de do, an wen eh open um lo! an behole! eh see een de closet tree noung ooman duh heng up long dem neck, an dem bin all dead.

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**What happens:** see, heng up · **To what, where:** een closet tree, long dem neck

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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 8. 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:pg76586:8:41
# text = Eh pit de key ter de hole an eh onlock de do, an wen eh open um lo! an behole! eh see een de closet tree noung ooman duh heng up long dem neck, an dem bin all dead.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	de	de	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	eh	eh	X	FW	_	10	compound	_	_
10	onlock	onlock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	behole	behole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
24	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
27	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	flat:foreign	_	_
28	closet	closet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	noung	noung	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	ooman	ooman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	31	discourse	_	_
33	heng	heng	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
42	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	det	_	_
43	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · do-support |  | een closet tree and ooman and a dem bin |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus |
| 2 | **heng up** | gerund |  | long dem neck |  |  |  |  | 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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