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title: Eh mek eh horse grabble tru, an den eh dribe straight fur eh farruh-… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh mek eh horse grabble tru, an den eh dribe straight fur eh farruh-een-law house. Who acts: Eh eh horse, fur. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 76

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Eh mek eh horse grabble tru, an den eh dribe straight fur eh farruh-een-law house.

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**Who acts:** Eh eh horse, fur · **What happens:** grabble, house · **To what, where:** tru

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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 eh horse, fur), 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:pg76586:8:76
# text = Eh mek eh horse grabble tru, an den eh dribe straight fur eh farruh-een-law house.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grabble	grabble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	tru	tru	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dribe	dribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
13	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
15	farruh	farruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grabble** | present | Eh eh horse | tru and a eh dribe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **house** |  | fur |  |  |  |  | straight *property* | 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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