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title: Wen sun down an eh biggin fuh dark, Buh Rabbit gedder him fambly, an… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen sun down an eh biggin fuh dark, Buh Rabbit gedder him fambly, and dem gone an git de yearlin meat, an dem cahr um home an dem eat um. Who acts: gedder, dem. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, with its dependency 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 46

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Wen sun down an eh biggin fuh dark, Buh Rabbit gedder him fambly, and dem gone an git de yearlin meat, an dem cahr um home an dem eat um.

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**Who acts:** gedder, dem · **What happens:** go, eat · **To what, where:** git, 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 (gedder, 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:pg76586:10:46
# text = Wen sun down an eh biggin fuh dark, Buh Rabbit gedder him fambly, and dem gone an git de yearlin meat, an dem cahr um home an dem eat um.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	biggin	biggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gedder	gedd	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	nsubj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	advmod	_	_
22	yearlin	yearlin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	cahr	cahr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
29	home	home	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	parataxis	_	_
33	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | participle | gedder  Wen sun down a eh biggin  Buh Rabbit  Rabbit | a git |  |  |  | yearlin meat *obl*; dem *nsubj* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location git=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | infinitive | a dem | um |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient |

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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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