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title: Wen de Dog gone fuh gedder de moss an git de fire, Buh Rabbit call t… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen de Dog gone fuh gedder de moss an git de fire, Buh Rabbit call ter de Goose an ax um: “How you duh watch me wen you no see me?” Who acts: de fire, you, wen. 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 58

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Wen de Dog gone fuh gedder de moss an git de fire, Buh Rabbit call ter de Goose an ax um: “How you duh watch me wen you no see me?”

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**Who acts:** de fire, you, wen · **What happens:** call, watch, see · **To what, where:** ter, de fire, gone fuh de moss · **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 (de fire, you, wen), 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:pg76586:10:58
# text = Wen de Dog gone fuh gedder de moss an git de fire, Buh Rabbit call ter de Goose an ax um: “How you duh watch me wen you no see me?”
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	gedder	gedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
17	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	Goose	Goose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
28	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	nmod:unmarked	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	parataxis	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: ask* | present | a de fire | ter |  |  |  | a ax um *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ter=Recipient |
| 2 | **watch** *in a quote* | infinitive | you | a de fire *= fire* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | wen | a de fire *= fire* |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |

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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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