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title: Narruh time eh tek de shape er alligatur fuh worry you duck an goose. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Narruh time eh tek de shape er alligatur fuh worry you duck an goose. Who acts: shape alligatur. 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 17

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Narruh time eh tek de shape er alligatur fuh worry you duck an goose.

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**Who acts:** shape alligatur · **What happens:** worry · **To what, where:** you

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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 (shape alligatur), 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:pg76586:8:17
# text = Narruh time eh tek de shape er alligatur fuh worry you duck an goose.
1	Narruh	narruh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	eh	eh	X	FW	_	4	compound	_	_
4	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	alligatur	alligatur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	worry	worry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **worry** | infinitive | shape alligatur | you |  |  |  | duck *obj*; a goose *obj* | 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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