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title: Eh try fuh swade de Sun, but de Sun wunt listne ter um; and de Sun d… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh try fuh swade de Sun, but de Sun wunt listne ter um; and de Sun dribe um way from him house. Who acts: you, Sun dribe. 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 33

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Eh try fuh swade de Sun, but de Sun wunt listne ter um; and de Sun dribe um way from him house.

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**Who acts:** you, Sun dribe · **What happens:** try, wunt, way · **To what, where:** swade de Sun, um

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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 (you, Sun dribe), 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:pg76586:2:33
# text = Eh try fuh swade de Sun, but de Sun wunt listne ter um; and de Sun dribe um way from him house.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
4	swade	swade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	de	de	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	wunt	wunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	listne	listne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	dep	_	_
13	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	dribe	dribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	um	um	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | imperative | you *not said here* | swade de Sun |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Eventuality |
| 2 | **wunt** | present | you *not said here* | um |  |  |  | de Sun | tree rules |
| 3 | **way** |  | Sun dribe |  |  |  |  | from Sun; house *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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