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title: Try eh bes, eh scacely kin mek bread fuh eat. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Try eh bes, eh scacely kin mek bread fuh eat. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4, 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 4, sentence 118

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Try eh bes, eh scacely kin mek bread fuh eat.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** try, eat · **To what, where:** bes

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg76586:4:118
# text = Try eh bes, eh scacely kin mek bread fuh eat.
1	Try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
3	bes	be	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
6	scacely	scacely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	kin	kin	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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* | bes |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent be=Eventuality |
| 2 | **eat** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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