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title: Wen de time come fur run de race, Buh Deer an Buh Cooter bofe stat o… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen de time come fur run de race, Buh Deer an Buh Cooter bofe stat off togedder. Who acts: Wen time, fur, 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 240

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Wen de time come fur run de race, Buh Deer an Buh Cooter bofe stat off togedder.

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**Who acts:** Wen time, fur, Buh · **What happens:** come, run, stat · **To what, where:** de race

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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 time, fur, 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:pg76586:1:240
# text = Wen de time come fur run de race, Buh Deer an Buh Cooter bofe stat off togedder.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
8	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	bofe	bofe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	stat	stat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	togedder	togedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | Wen time |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | present | fur | de race |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Trajectory |
| 3 | **stat** |  | Buh |  |  |  |  | off togedder | 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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