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title: Wen eh git day, eh meet Buh Cooter puffin an er blowin an a leanin u… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh git day, eh meet Buh Cooter puffin an er blowin an a leanin up gin de pose duh laugh at um. Who acts: you. 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 251

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Wen eh git day, eh meet Buh Cooter puffin an er blowin an a leanin up gin de pose duh laugh at um.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** meet, pose, laugh · **To what, where:** Buh Cooter puffin, um

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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 (you), 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:pg76586:1:251
# text = Wen eh git day, eh meet Buh Cooter puffin an er blowin an a leanin up gin de pose duh laugh at um.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	dislocated	_	_
2	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	meet	meet	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	puffin	puffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	blowin	blowin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	leanin	leanin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	gin	gin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	flat:foreign	_	_
20	pose	pose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
22	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | imperative | you *not said here* | Buh Cooter puffin |  |  |  | Wen *dislocated*; a er blowin *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pose** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **laugh** | infinitive |  |  |  | um |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «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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