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title: Eh tek eh trunk an try fuh lick um out, but befo de fire done out, e… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh tek eh trunk an try fuh lick um out, but befo de fire done out, eh bun de hinge er all two eh yez, so eh couldnt liff um up no mo. Who acts: try. 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 the 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 31

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Eh tek eh trunk an try fuh lick um out, but befo de fire done out, eh bun de hinge er all two eh yez, so eh couldnt liff um up no mo.

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**Who acts:** try · **What happens:** lick out, do out · **To what, where:** um, bun, Eh tek

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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 (try), 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:pg76586:9:31
# text = Eh tek eh trunk an try fuh lick um out, but befo de fire done out, eh bun de hinge er all two eh yez, so eh couldnt liff um up no mo.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	lick	lick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	befo	befo	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
20	bun	bun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	compound	_	_
22	hinge	hinge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	er	er	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nsubj	_	_
26	eh	eh	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	yez	yez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	liff	liff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
33	um	um	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	32	nmod:unmarked	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
36	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lick out** | infinitive | a try *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent um=Source |
| 2 | **do out** | participle | a try *not said here* | bun and de hinge |  |  |  | befo de fire | vn act-114-1 «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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