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title: Coward man hab all kind er lie fuh tell fuh scuse ehself. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Coward man hab all kind er lie fuh tell fuh scuse ehself. Who acts: Coward man hab. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, 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 11, sentence 61

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Coward man hab all kind er lie fuh tell fuh scuse ehself.

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**Who acts:** Coward man hab · **What happens:** lie, tell, scuse · **To what, where:** ehself · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Coward man hab), 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:pg76586:11:61
# text = Coward man hab all kind er lie fuh tell fuh scuse ehself.
1	Coward	coward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
11	scuse	scuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | infinitive | Coward man hab |  |  |  |  | all kind er *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Coward man hab *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **scuse** *not said to happen* | infinitive | Coward man hab *not said here* | ehself |  |  |  |  | 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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