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title: In try fuh chop me head off, you cut you own foot off. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: In try fuh chop me head off, you cut you own foot off. 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 175

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In try fuh chop me head off, you cut you own foot off.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** chop off, cut off · **To what, where:** me, try, you

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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:pg76586:4:175
# text = In try fuh chop me head off, you cut you own foot off.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	chop	chop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	off	off	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chop off** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  | try |  | head *obj*; off *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent i=Patient head=Result |
| 2 | **cut off** | present | you | you |  |  |  | own foot *obj* | 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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