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title: Eh tek de big road, an eh mek eh driber pit de lick ter de horse, bu… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh tek de big road, an eh mek eh driber pit de lick ter de horse, but eh cant see ner yeddy nuttne bout eh wife. Who acts: eh mek, Eh tek, cant, ner. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 74

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Eh tek de big road, an eh mek eh driber pit de lick ter de horse, but eh cant see ner yeddy nuttne bout eh wife.

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**Who acts:** eh mek, Eh tek, cant, ner · **What happens:** de, lick, see, bout · **To what, where:** ter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (eh mek, Eh tek, cant, ner), 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:pg76586:8:74
# text = Eh tek de big road, an eh mek eh driber pit de lick ter de horse, but eh cant see ner yeddy nuttne bout eh wife.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	eh	eh	X	FW	_	13	compound	_	_
11	driber	driber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	lick	lick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
17	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cant	cant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
23	ner	ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	yeddy	yeddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	_
27	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
28	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **de** |  | a eh mek |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lick** | present | Eh tek and de big road and eh pit de | ter and de horse |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent ter=Source |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | eh cant |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **bout** |  | ner |  |  |  |  | wife *conj* | 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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