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title: Wile me duh wonder wudduh dat, four leely angel, wuh dress een wite… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wile me duh wonder wudduh dat, four leely angel, wuh dress een wite an hab wing on eh back, fly een de room. Who acts: you, een. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14, 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 14, sentence 101

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Wile me duh wonder wudduh dat, four leely angel, wuh dress een wite an hab wing on eh back, fly een de room.

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**Who acts:** you, een · **What happens:** wile, wonder, dress, wite, fly · **To what, where:** me, dat, hab wing, eh, een room

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, een), 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:pg76586:14:101
# text = Wile me duh wonder wudduh dat, four leely angel, wuh dress een wite an hab wing on eh back, fly een de room.
1	Wile	wile	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	wonder	wonder	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	wudduh	wudduh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	leely	leely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	dress	dress	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wite	wite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	fly	fly	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	amod	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	flat	_	_
26	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wile** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | dat and four leely angel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dress** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wite** | infinitive | een | a hab wing |  | eh |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fly** | infinitive | you *not said here* | een room |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location room=Theme |

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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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