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title: One time me try fuh ketch um up in me arm, but me han gone clean tru… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One time me try fuh ketch um up in me arm, but me han gone clean tru um dis luk er shadder, an den eh wanish, an me so sorry.” Who acts: me, tru. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 65

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One time me try fuh ketch um up in me arm, but me han gone clean tru um dis luk er shadder, an den eh wanish, an me so sorry.”

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**Who acts:** me, tru · **What happens:** try up, luk · **To what, where:** ketch, me arm

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, tru), 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:pg76586:14:65
# text = One time me try fuh ketch um up in me arm, but me han gone clean tru um dis luk er shadder, an den eh wanish, an me so sorry.”
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
6	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	um	um	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	compound	_	_
11	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	compound	_	_
15	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
16	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
17	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
18	tru	tru	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	nsubj	_	_
19	um	um	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	luk	luk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
22	er	er	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
23	shadder	shadd	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	eh	eh	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
28	wanish	wanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	conj	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try up** | present | me | ketch |  | me arm | time | um *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus ketch=Experiencer um=Result |
| 2 | **luk** |  | tru |  |  |  |  | a den *conj* | 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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