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title: De rain lick um een eh yez, an eh leff fuh hunt better place. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De rain lick um een eh yez, an eh leff fuh hunt better place. Who acts: De rain, eh leff fuh. 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 70

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De rain lick um een eh yez, an eh leff fuh hunt better place.

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**Who acts:** De rain, eh leff fuh · **What happens:** lick, hunt · **To what, where:** um, better place

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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 (De rain, eh leff fuh), 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:pg76586:11:70
# text = De rain lick um een eh yez, an eh leff fuh hunt better place.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	compound	_	_
2	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lick	lick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	um	um	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	obj	_	_
6	eh	eh	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	yez	yez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
14	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lick** | infinitive | De rain | um |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hunt** | present | a eh leff fuh | better place |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |

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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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