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title: Eh yent bin tree day arter dat wen lo an behole! — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh yent bin tree day arter dat wen lo an behole! A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, 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 9, sentence 81

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Eh yent bin tree day arter dat wen lo an behole!

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**To what, where:** arter dat wen

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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: 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:pg76586:9:81
# text = Eh yent bin tree day arter dat wen lo an behole!
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
2	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	arter	art	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
7	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	lo	lo	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	behole	behole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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