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title: De King try fuh fine out which one er de tree bin tek um, an eh fail. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De King try fuh fine out which one er de tree bin tek um, an eh fail. Who acts: De, one. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, 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 6, sentence 141

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De King try fuh fine out which one er de tree bin tek um, an eh fail.

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**Who acts:** De, one · **What happens:** try, 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De, one), 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:pg76586:6:141
# text = De King try fuh fine out which one er de tree bin tek um, an eh fail.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	dep	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	8	det	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	nsubj	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | present | De |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **um** |  | which one |  |  |  |  | a eh fail *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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