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title: Wen de Dog come back, eh stuff de moss een de holler, an eh pit fire… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen de Dog come back, eh stuff de moss een de holler, an eh pit fire ter um, an eh mek er hebby smoke; but eh cant see ner yeddy nuttne bout Buh Rabbit. Who acts: Wen, de moss, cant. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 62

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Wen de Dog come back, eh stuff de moss een de holler, an eh pit fire ter um, an eh mek er hebby smoke; but eh cant see ner yeddy nuttne bout Buh Rabbit.

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**Who acts:** Wen, de moss, cant · **What happens:** come back, holler, see · **To what, where:** ner

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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, de moss, cant), 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:pg76586:10:62
# text = Wen de Dog come back, eh stuff de moss een de holler, an eh pit fire ter um, an eh mek er hebby smoke; but eh cant see ner yeddy nuttne bout Buh Rabbit.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
12	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
19	ter	ter	X	FW	_	20	compound	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
25	er	er	X	GW	_	24	flat:foreign	_	_
26	hebby	hebby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	cant	cant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
33	ner	ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	yeddy	yeddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
37	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
38	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | infinitive | Wen |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **holler** *speech: other* |  | de moss |  |  |  |  | a eh pit fire and ter um *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | eh cant | ner |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ner=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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