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title: So eh tell dem fuh fetch one big tukrey-gobbler ter um. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: So eh tell dem fuh fetch one big tukrey-gobbler ter um. Who acts: dem fuh, one. 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 24

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So eh tell dem fuh fetch one big tukrey-gobbler ter um.

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**Who acts:** dem fuh, one · **What happens:** tell, fetch, um · **To what, where:** dem fuh · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (dem fuh, 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:pg76586:7:24
# text = So eh tell dem fuh fetch one big tukrey-gobbler ter um.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nsubj	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
9	tukrey	tukrey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	gobbler	gobbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present |  | dem fuh |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent fuh=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fetch** *not said to happen* | infinitive | dem fuh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **um** |  | one |  |  |  |  |  | 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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