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title: De horse sorry fur um, an eh prommus fuh try an sabe um, but eh tell… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De horse sorry fur um, an eh prommus fuh try an sabe um, but eh tell um fuh keep eh mout shet, an mek no rackit bout de ting. Who acts: De horse, eh, um fuh. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 62

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De horse sorry fur um, an eh prommus fuh try an sabe um, but eh tell um fuh keep eh mout shet, an mek no rackit bout de ting.

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**Who acts:** De horse, eh, um fuh · **What happens:** try, sabe, tell, keep, eh · **To what, where:** sabe um, mek, mout shet · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De horse, eh, um fuh), 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:pg76586:8:62
# text = De horse sorry fur um, an eh prommus fuh try an sabe um, but eh tell um fuh keep eh mout shet, an mek no rackit bout de ting.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	compound	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	prommus	prommus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
11	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	sabe	sabe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	compound	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
19	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	eh	eh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	mout	mout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	shet	shet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
29	rackit	rackit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
31	de	de	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | infinitive | De horse | a sabe um |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sabe** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | eh | a mek |  |  |  | de ting; no rackit bout *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent bout=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **keep** | present | um fuh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **eh** | gerund | um fuh *not said here* | mout shet |  |  |  |  | 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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