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title: Wen eh fine eh cant loosne eh han, eh kick de Tar Baby wid eh knee. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh fine eh cant loosne eh han, eh kick de Tar Baby wid eh knee. Who acts: Wen, Tar. 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 317

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Wen eh fine eh cant loosne eh han, eh kick de Tar Baby wid eh knee.

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**Who acts:** Wen, Tar · **What happens:** eh, kick, wi · **To what, where:** fine eh cant eh han, de, eh knee

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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, Tar), 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:pg76586:1:317
# text = Wen eh fine eh cant loosne eh han, eh kick de Tar Baby wid eh knee.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
4	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	loosne	loosne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	kick	kick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	obl	_	_
13	Tar	Tar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	Baby	Baby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eh** | past | Wen | fine eh cant eh han |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kick** | infinitive |  | de |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wi** | past | Tar | eh knee |  |  |  |  | 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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