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title: De cunjur man try fuh fine out de tief, but eh miss. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De cunjur man try fuh fine out de tief, but eh miss. Who acts: De cunjur man. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, 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 7, sentence 2

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De cunjur man try fuh fine out de tief, but eh miss.

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**Who acts:** De cunjur man · **What happens:** try · **To what, where:** fine

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De cunjur man), 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:pg76586:7:2
# text = De cunjur man try fuh fine out de tief, but eh miss.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	de	de	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	tief	tief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	miss	miss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | infinitive | De cunjur man | fine de tief |  |  |  | eh miss *parataxis* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Eventuality |

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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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