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title: Wen eh lean back, an shet eh yeye, an draw eh bow fuh tru, nobody wu… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh lean back, an shet eh yeye, an draw eh bow fuh tru, nobody wuh yeddy kin keep from shuffle eh foot. Who acts: Wen, eh yeye, nobody. 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 pragmatic
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 26

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Wen eh lean back, an shet eh yeye, an draw eh bow fuh tru, nobody wuh yeddy kin keep from shuffle eh foot.

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**Who acts:** Wen, eh yeye, nobody · **What happens:** lean back, bow, kin, keep · **To what, where:** shuffle eh foot

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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, eh yeye, nobody), 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:pg76586:12:26
# text = Wen eh lean back, an shet eh yeye, an draw eh bow fuh tru, nobody wuh yeddy kin keep from shuffle eh foot.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
3	lean	lean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	shet	shet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	draw	draw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	bow	bow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
16	tru	tru	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	21	nsubj	_	_
19	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
20	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
22	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	shuffle	shuffle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lean back** | infinitive | Wen |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bow** | present | a eh yeye |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **kin** |  | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | present |  |  |  | shuffle eh foot |  |  | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from foot=Eventuality |

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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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