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title: De ting skade de gal so bad eh scacely hab han fuh shet de do an loc… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De ting skade de gal so bad eh scacely hab han fuh shet de do an lock um gen. But arter a while eh manage fuh do dat, an den eh mek hase an heng de key way eh bin fine um. Who acts: skade de gal, den eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jo
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 42

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De ting skade de gal so bad eh scacely hab han fuh shet de do an lock um gen. But arter a while eh manage fuh do dat, an den eh mek hase an heng de key way eh bin fine um.

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**Who acts:** skade de gal, den eh · **What happens:** do, manage, hase · **To what, where:** shet, dat

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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 (skade de gal, den 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:pg76586:8:42
# text = De ting skade de gal so bad eh scacely hab han fuh shet de do an lock um gen. But arter a while eh manage fuh do dat, an den eh mek hase an heng de key way eh bin fine um.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	skade	skade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
5	gal	gal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADP	GW	Typo=Yes	11	case	_	_
9	scacely	scacely	X	RB	_	8	goeswith	_	_
10	hab	hab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
13	shet	shet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	gen.	Gen.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
20	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	arter	art	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	manage	manage	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	hase	hase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	heng	heng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	36	flat:foreign	_	_
38	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:unmarked	_	_
40	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
42	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | skade de gal *not said here* | shet |  |  |  | a lock um *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Eventuality |
| 2 | **manage** | present | skade de gal |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive | skade de gal *not said here* | dat |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hase** |  | a den eh |  |  |  |  | a heng  key way *conj* | 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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