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title: Heap er people willin’ fuh notus er pooty noung widder, wen dem no w… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Heap er people willin’ fuh notus er pooty noung widder, wen dem no want bodder long narruh man chillun. Who acts: wen dem. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 1

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Heap er people willin’ fuh notus er pooty noung widder, wen dem no want bodder long narruh man chillun.

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**Who acts:** wen dem · **What happens:** want · **To what, where:** Heap

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wen 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:pg76586:12:1
# text = Heap er people willin’ fuh notus er pooty noung widder, wen dem no want bodder long narruh man chillun.
1	Heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	er	er	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	willin	willin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
7	notus	notus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	er	er	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	1	appos	_	_
9	pooty	pooty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	noung	noung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	widder	widder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	bodder	bodder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
19	narruh	narruh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | wen dem *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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