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title: Eh nose duh twis from side ter side fuh ketch all de scent duh float… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh nose duh twis from side ter side fuh ketch all de scent duh float een de element, an wen eh walk bout eh hop so light you tink der sperit. Who acts: ketch, wen eh, you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, with its d
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 135

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Eh nose duh twis from side ter side fuh ketch all de scent duh float een de element, an wen eh walk bout eh hop so light you tink der sperit.

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**Who acts:** ketch, wen eh, you · **What happens:** float, walk, tink · **To what, where:** een element, bout, light, Eh nose

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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 (ketch, wen eh, you), 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:pg76586:9:135
# text = Eh nose duh twis from side ter side fuh ketch all de scent duh float een de element, an wen eh walk bout eh hop so light you tink der sperit.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	twis	twi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
10	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
12	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
16	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	amod	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	flat	_	_
18	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hop	hop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	tink	tink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
31	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	_
32	sperit	sperit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | infinitive | ketch | een element |  |  |  | all de scent *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location element=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | present | a wen eh | bout |  |  |  | eh hop *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tink** | present | you | light |  |  |  | der sperit *obj* | 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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