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title: Ebry time eh try fuh ketch um fuh lick um, Buh Rabbit somehow er nar… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ebry time eh try fuh ketch um fuh lick um, Buh Rabbit somehow er narruh slip tru eh han an git way. Who acts: Ebry time, er. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 114

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Ebry time eh try fuh ketch um fuh lick um, Buh Rabbit somehow er narruh slip tru eh han an git way.

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**Who acts:** Ebry time, er · **What happens:** try, lick, slip · **To what, where:** ketch um, um, Buh Rabbit

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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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ebry time, er), 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:pg76586:10:114
# text = Ebry time eh try fuh ketch um fuh lick um, Buh Rabbit somehow er narruh slip tru eh han an git way.
1	Ebry	Ebry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	eh	eh	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
9	lick	lick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
14	somehow	somehow	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	er	er	X	GW	_	17	nsubj	_	_
16	narruh	narruh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
17	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	tru	tru	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	dep	_	_
19	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | infinitive | Ebry time *not said here* | ketch um |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lick** *not said to happen* | infinitive | Ebry time *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent um=Source |
| 3 | **slip** | infinitive | er | Buh Rabbit |  |  | time | a git way *obl:unmarked*; eh han *obj* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent han=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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