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title: Wen dem mose git ter de place way de Ole Man gwine tun out de big ro… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen dem mose git ter de place way de Ole Man gwine tun out de big road, Buh Rabbit hop outer de waggin dout de Ole Man shum, an run back an gedder all de fish wuh him bin tief. Who acts: Wen dem, big road, dem. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C.,
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 11

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Wen dem mose git ter de place way de Ole Man gwine tun out de big road, Buh Rabbit hop outer de waggin dout de Ole Man shum, an run back an gedder all de fish wuh him bin tief.

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**Who acts:** Wen dem, big road, dem · **What happens:** mose, tun out, hop, run back, de, bin · **To what, where:** git, outer de waggin dout, gedder, fish, tief

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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 dem, big road, dem), 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:pg76586:10:11
# text = Wen dem mose git ter de place way de Ole Man gwine tun out de big road, Buh Rabbit hop outer de waggin dout de Ole Man shum, an run back an gedder all de fish wuh him bin tief.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mose	mose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	ter	ter	X	FW	_	7	compound	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	de	de	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
13	tun	tun	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	de	de	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	hop	hop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
22	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	compound	_	_
24	waggin	waggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	dout	dout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	de	de	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	shum	shum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
33	back	back	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	gedder	gedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	advmod	_	_
37	de	de	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
38	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
39	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	37	discourse	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
42	tief	tief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mose** | infinitive | Wen dem | git |  |  |  | place way *obl:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tun out** | present | Wen dem *not said here* |  |  |  |  | de Ole Man gwine | tree rules |
| 3 | **hop** | present | big road and Buh Rabbit | outer de waggin dout |  |  |  | de Ole Man shum | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dout=Trajectory |
| 4 | **run back** | present | big road and Buh Rabbit *not said here* | a gedder |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gedder=Trajectory |
| 5 | **de** | present | big road and Buh Rabbit *not said here* | fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **bin** | present | dem | tief |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tief=Theme |

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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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