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title: Wen de rain stop, Buh Wolf heng up eh fiddle an gone git eh knife, a… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen de rain stop, Buh Wolf heng up eh fiddle an gone git eh knife, an pit eh pot on de fire, en sharpen eh knife on de pot rim. 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 77

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Wen de rain stop, Buh Wolf heng up eh fiddle an gone git eh knife, an pit eh pot on de fire, en sharpen eh knife on de pot rim.

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**To what, where:** Wen rain stop

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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: 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:pg76586:12:77
# text = Wen de rain stop, Buh Wolf heng up eh fiddle an gone git eh knife, an pit eh pot on de fire, en sharpen eh knife on de pot rim.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	heng	heng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	compound	_	_
24	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
27	sharpen	sharpen	X	FW	_	29	compound	_	_
28	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	rim	rim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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