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title: Wen de rain done gone, an de win blow, an de sun shine, wuh Buh Tukr… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen de rain done gone, an de win blow, an de sun shine, wuh Buh Tukrey Buzzud do? Who acts: Wen, Buh. 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 218

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Wen de rain done gone, an de win blow, an de sun shine, wuh Buh Tukrey Buzzud do?

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**Who acts:** Wen, Buh · **What happens:** be, do

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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, Buh), 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:pg76586:1:218
# text = Wen de rain done gone, an de win blow, an de sun shine, wuh Buh Tukrey Buzzud do?
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	cop	_	_
5	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	win	win	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	shine	shine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
18	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	Tukrey	Tukrey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	Buzzud	Buzzud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | participle | Wen |  |  |  |  | rain *nsubj*; a de win blow and a de sun shine *parataxis*; gone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | 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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