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title: Eh Mossa try um heap er time, an eh ebber did mek right answer. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh Mossa try um heap er time, an eh ebber did mek right answer. Who acts: Eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8, 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 8, sentence 101

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Eh Mossa try um heap er time, an eh ebber did mek right answer.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** try, do · **To what, where:** um heap, mek right answer

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh), 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:pg76586:8:101
# text = Eh Mossa try um heap er time, an eh ebber did mek right answer.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	ebber	ebb	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
13	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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 | Eh | um heap and er time and a eh |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | past | Eh *not said here* | mek right answer |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=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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