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title: Wen de rain duh po down, eh set on de fench an eh squinch up isself. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen de rain duh po down, eh set on de fench an eh squinch up isself. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 214

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Wen de rain duh po down, eh set on de fench an eh squinch up isself.

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**What happens:** set · **To what, where:** Wen, de fench

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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: 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:pg76586:1:214
# text = Wen de rain duh po down, eh set on de fench an eh squinch up isself.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	po	po	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
12	fench	fench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	squinch	squinch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	isself	isself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | participle · passive |  | Wen |  | de fench |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on fench=Destination |

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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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