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title: Den eh bague de Ole Man fuh tek um up een eh waggin an cahr um long… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh bague de Ole Man fuh tek um up een eh waggin an cahr um long de big road tel eh come ter de place way him fuh tun off fuh gwine ter him house. Who acts: de. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, with its dependen
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 6

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Den eh bague de Ole Man fuh tek um up een eh waggin an cahr um long de big road tel eh come ter de place way him fuh tun off fuh gwine ter him house.

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**Who acts:** de · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** de place way, Den eh bague

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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), 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:pg76586:10:6
# text = Den eh bague de Ole Man fuh tek um up een eh waggin an cahr um long de big road tel eh come ter de place way him fuh tun off fuh gwine ter him house.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	eh	eh	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
3	bague	bague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	um	um	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	eh	eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	waggin	waggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	cahr	cahr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	nsubj	_	_
19	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
24	ter	ter	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
29	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
33	gwine	gwine	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	dep	_	_
34	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	_
36	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | de | de place way  eh |  |  |  | fuh tun *obl*; big tel eh *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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