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title: Fus come de Deer, an eh try fuh open de do fuh git ter him pile er g… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fus come de Deer, an eh try fuh open de do fuh git ter him pile er grass. Who acts: Fus, open, bin. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5, 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 5, sentence 76

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Fus come de Deer, an eh try fuh open de do fuh git ter him pile er grass.

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**Who acts:** Fus, open, bin · **What happens:** come, try, do, pile · **To what, where:** de, git, er grass

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fus, open, bin), 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:pg76586:5:76
# text = Fus come de Deer, an eh try fuh open de do fuh git ter him pile er grass.
1	Fus	fu	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	obl	_	_
4	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	ter	ter	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	pile	pile	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Fus | de |  |  |  | Deer *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **do** | present | open | git |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent git=Eventuality |
| 4 | **pile** | present | bin | er grass |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grass=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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