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title: Wen de lightnin flash, an de tunder roll, an de rain po down, dem fa… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen de lightnin flash, an de tunder roll, an de rain po down, dem faid fuh stay een de wood, an dem run teh Buh Wolf house, an dem bague um fuh leh dem come een tel de storm done ober. Who acts: een de wood, de storm. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Char
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 61

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Wen de lightnin flash, an de tunder roll, an de rain po down, dem faid fuh stay een de wood, an dem run teh Buh Wolf house, an dem bague um fuh leh dem come een tel de storm done ober.

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**Who acts:** een de wood, de storm · **What happens:** stay, come, do · **To what, where:** een tel, ober, Wen lightnin flash

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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 (een de wood, de storm), 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:pg76586:12:61
# text = Wen de lightnin flash, an de tunder roll, an de rain po down, dem faid fuh stay een de wood, an dem run teh Buh Wolf house, an dem bague um fuh leh dem come een tel de storm done ober.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	lightnin	lightnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	advmod	_	_
8	tunder	tunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	po	po	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
18	faid	faid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
19	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
20	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	een	een	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	compound	_	_
23	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	teh	teh	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	bague	bague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
37	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	36	discourse	_	_
38	leh	leh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
41	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	_
45	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl	_	_
46	ober	ober	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | een de wood and a dem run teh Wolf house and a bague um | een tel |  |  |  | leh dem *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tel=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | participle | de storm *not said here* | ober |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ober=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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