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title: Fuh settle de bet Buh Rattlesnake tretch ehself out ter eh berry len… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fuh settle de bet Buh Rattlesnake tretch ehself out ter eh berry lenk on de log, an Buh Rabbit pit de pole long side er um fuh medjuh um. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 113

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Fuh settle de bet Buh Rattlesnake tretch ehself out ter eh berry lenk on de log, an Buh Rabbit pit de pole long side er um fuh medjuh um.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** settle out · **To what, where:** de

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg76586:9:113
# text = Fuh settle de bet Buh Rattlesnake tretch ehself out ter eh berry lenk on de log, an Buh Rabbit pit de pole long side er um fuh medjuh um.
1	Fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	settle	settle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	obl	_	_
4	bet	bet	X	FW	_	7	compound	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Rattlesnake	Rattlesnake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	tretch	tretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
10	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	lenk	lenk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	flat:foreign	_	_
23	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	er	er	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	21	appos	_	_
27	um	um	X	GW	_	26	flat	_	_
28	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	_
29	medjuh	medjuh	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
30	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle out** | imperative | you *not said here* | de |  |  |  | ter eh berry lenk on de's log and a Buh Rabbit pit; bet Buh tretch  ehself *obl* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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