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title: Eh farruh an eh murrer try fuh swade um fuh stay long dem, but eh sa… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh farruh an eh murrer try fuh swade um fuh stay long dem, but eh say eh mek up eh mine fuh go. Who acts: Eh, mine. 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 20

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Eh farruh an eh murrer try fuh swade um fuh stay long dem, but eh say eh mek up eh mine fuh go.

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**Who acts:** Eh, mine · **What happens:** try, swade, stay, say up, go · **To what, where:** long dem, mek

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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 (Eh, mine), 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:pg76586:4:20
# text = Eh farruh an eh murrer try fuh swade um fuh stay long dem, but eh say eh mek up eh mine fuh go.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	murrer	murrer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
8	swade	swade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	um	um	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	dep	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **try** | infinitive | Eh |  |  |  |  | a eh murrer *nsubj* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **swade** *not said to happen* | infinitive | Eh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stay** | infinitive | Eh *not said here* | long dem |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dem=Location |
| 4 | **say up** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Eh *not said here* | mek |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mek=Topic |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | mine |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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