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title: Wen de horse fine say eh head loose, eh mek fuh home; an befo Buh Wo… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen de horse fine say eh head loose, eh mek fuh home; an befo Buh Wolf fine out eh run tru de big gate an roun de house ter de stable. Who acts: Wen, befo. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 103

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Wen de horse fine say eh head loose, eh mek fuh home; an befo Buh Wolf fine out eh run tru de big gate an roun de house ter de stable.

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**Who acts:** Wen, befo · **What happens:** say, fine out, run · **To what, where:** eh head, tru · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen, befo), 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:pg76586:10:103
# text = Wen de horse fine say eh head loose, eh mek fuh home; an befo Buh Wolf fine out eh run tru de big gate an roun de house ter de stable.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
11	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	fine	fine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	tru	tru	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	flat	_	_
25	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	flat:foreign	_	_
33	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Wen | eh head |  |  |  | loose *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent head=Topic |
| 2 | **fine out** | past | a befo |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | infinitive | a befo *not said here* | tru |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tru=Trajectory |

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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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