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title: Eh tek um an eh try one lock arter anurrer, but de key wunt fit. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh tek um an eh try one lock arter anurrer, but de key wunt fit. Who acts: Eh tek. 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 39

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Eh tek um an eh try one lock arter anurrer, but de key wunt fit.

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**Who acts:** Eh tek · **What happens:** try · **To what, where:** one arter anurrer

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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 tek), 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:pg76586:8:39
# text = Eh tek um an eh try one lock arter anurrer, but de key wunt fit.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	um	um	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	arter	arter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	anurrer	anurrer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	wunt	wunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	fit	fit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | infinitive | Eh tek um a eh | one arter anurrer |  |  |  | de key wunt fit *obl* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anurrer=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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