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title: Wen eh tink Buh Alligatur done gone tersleep, eh tiptoe ebber so sof… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh tink Buh Alligatur done gone tersleep, eh tiptoe ebber so sofe tell eh come right pon top er Buh Alligatur. Who acts: Wen eh, Buh, sofe. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 162

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Wen eh tink Buh Alligatur done gone tersleep, eh tiptoe ebber so sofe tell eh come right pon top er Buh Alligatur.

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**Who acts:** Wen eh, Buh, sofe · **What happens:** tink, do, tell, come · **To what, where:** gone tersleep, eh, pon · **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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen eh, Buh, sofe), 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:pg76586:1:162
# text = Wen eh tink Buh Alligatur done gone tersleep, eh tiptoe ebber so sofe tell eh come right pon top er Buh Alligatur.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tink	tink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tersleep	tersleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ebber	ebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	sofe	sofe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	right	right	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
21	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
22	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tink** | present | Wen eh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | Buh | gone tersleep and eh tiptoe ebber |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tersleep=Eventuality |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | sofe | eh |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent eh=Recipient |
| 4 | **come** | present | sofe *not said here* | pon |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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