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title: Eh fastne so tight eh couldnt git um out, but eh strain so hebby eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh fastne so tight eh couldnt git um out, but eh strain so hebby eh drag de tree up by de root. Who acts: strain. 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 187

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Eh fastne so tight eh couldnt git um out, but eh strain so hebby eh drag de tree up by de root.

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**Who acts:** strain · **What happens:** drag

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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 (strain), 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:pg76586:2:187
# text = Eh fastne so tight eh couldnt git um out, but eh strain so hebby eh drag de tree up by de root.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	fastne	fastne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	eh	eh	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	strain	strain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	hebby	hebby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	drag	drag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	compound	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag** |  | eh strain |  |  |  |  | by de root; de tree *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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