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title: Eh so mad eh try fuh kick Buh Cooter outer de road, an eh straighten… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh so mad eh try fuh kick Buh Cooter outer de road, an eh straighten fur de las mile pose. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1, 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 1, sentence 250

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Eh so mad eh try fuh kick Buh Cooter outer de road, an eh straighten fur de las mile pose.

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**What happens:** try, kick, straighten · **To what, where:** Buh Cooter, fur

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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 1. 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:pg76586:1:250
# text = Eh so mad eh try fuh kick Buh Cooter outer de road, an eh straighten fur de las mile pose.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	eh	eh	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	kick	kick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
12	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	straighten	straighten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	conj	_	_
19	las	las	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	pose	pose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **kick** | infinitive |  | Buh Cooter and outer de road and a eh |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent cooter=Patient |
| 3 | **straighten** | infinitive |  | fur |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fur=Patient |

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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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