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title: De ole man try fuh chop off de een er de Gallinipper bill. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De ole man try fuh chop off de een er de Gallinipper bill. Who acts: De ole man. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 2, 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 2, sentence 185

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De ole man try fuh chop off de een er de Gallinipper bill.

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**Who acts:** De ole man · **What happens:** try · **To what, where:** fuh chop

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De ole man), 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:pg76586:2:185
# text = De ole man try fuh chop off de een er de Gallinipper bill.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
2	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	chop	chop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
9	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	de	de	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Gallinipper	Gallinipper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | infinitive | De ole man | fuh chop |  |  |  | off de een er de Gallinipper bill | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chop=Eventuality |

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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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