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title: Eh gone an eh git one big calabash, an eh crape um out clean, an eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh gone an eh git one big calabash, an eh crape um out clean, an eh cut one hole een um, an eh pit honey een um, an eh tie um on de een er one long pole. Who acts: Eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, with its depen
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 123

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Eh gone an eh git one big calabash, an eh crape um out clean, an eh cut one hole een um, an eh pit honey een um, an eh tie um on de een er one long pole.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** go out, cut · **To what, where:** eh git, one hole

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh), 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:pg76586:9:123
# text = Eh gone an eh git one big calabash, an eh crape um out clean, an eh cut one hole een um, an eh pit honey een um, an eh tie um on de een er one long pole.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gone	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	calabash	calabash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	crape	crape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
15	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	_
23	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
26	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
27	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	flat	_	_
30	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	tie	tie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	38	advmod	_	_
38	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nmod	_	_
39	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	42	advmod	_	_
40	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
41	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | Eh | a eh git |  |  |  | one big calabash *obl*; clean *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut** | past | a eh | one hole and a eh honey um |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product |

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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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