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title: Wen de preachin an de singin done ober, dem all gone up fuh tek dem… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen de preachin an de singin done ober, dem all gone up fuh tek dem las look at Buh Wolf befo dem tote um out fuh bury um. Who acts: Wen preachin, fuh dem las. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, with its dependency t
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 138

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Wen de preachin an de singin done ober, dem all gone up fuh tek dem las look at Buh Wolf befo dem tote um out fuh bury um.

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**Who acts:** Wen preachin, fuh dem las · **What happens:** do, go up, look out, bury · **To what, where:** Buh Wolf, 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 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 preachin, fuh dem las), 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:pg76586:10:138
# text = Wen de preachin an de singin done ober, dem all gone up fuh tek dem las look at Buh Wolf befo dem tote um out fuh bury um.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	preachin	preachin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
6	singin	singin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	ober	ober	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	befo	befo	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	tote	tote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
27	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
28	bury	bury	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
29	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go up** | participle | Wen preachin |  |  |  |  | a de singin and done ober and dem *nsubj*; all *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **look out** | present | fuh dem las |  |  | Buh Wolf |  | befo tote um | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bury** | infinitive | fuh dem las *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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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