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title: Buh Rattlesnake twis ehself, an wrop ehself roun an roun de pole, an… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rattlesnake twis ehself, an wrop ehself roun an roun de pole, an try fuh git eh head loose, but all eh twis an tun yent do um no good. Who acts: eh twis. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 115

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Buh Rattlesnake twis ehself, an wrop ehself roun an roun de pole, an try fuh git eh head loose, but all eh twis an tun yent do um no good.

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**Who acts:** eh twis · **What happens:** um · **To what, where:** good, Rattlesnake twis

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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 (eh twis), 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:pg76586:9:115
# text = Buh Rattlesnake twis ehself, an wrop ehself roun an roun de pole, an try fuh git eh head loose, but all eh twis an tun yent do um no good.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	Rattlesnake	Rattlesnake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	twis	twi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wrop	wrop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	conj	_	_
9	roun	roun	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
18	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
21	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
25	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	twis	twi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:unmarked	_	_
30	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	um	um	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **um** | present · do-support | all eh twis  a tun yent | no good |  |  |  |  | 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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