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title: Wen de Fiddler notus how complete dem outdone, eh slip down de tree,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen de Fiddler notus how complete dem outdone, eh slip down de tree, an tek eh foot een eh han, an lean fuh de place way eh bin gwine. Who acts: Wen. 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 th
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 43

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Wen de Fiddler notus how complete dem outdone, eh slip down de tree, an tek eh foot een eh han, an lean fuh de place way eh bin gwine.

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**Who acts:** Wen · **What happens:** outdo, slip down · **To what, where:** complete dem, de tree

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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), 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:pg76586:12:43
# text = Wen de Fiddler notus how complete dem outdone, eh slip down de tree, an tek eh foot een eh han, an lean fuh de place way eh bin gwine.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Fiddler	Fiddler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	notus	notus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	outdone	outdo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	compound	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	list	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
27	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	flat:foreign	_	_
28	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:unmarked	_	_
30	eh	eh	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	flat	_	_
31	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **outdo** | participle |  | complete dem *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **slip down** | infinitive | Wen  notus and complete dem | de tree and a eh foot and a lean fuh  place way |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |

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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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