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title: We gone an we gone way up tel we git ter er big alablaster house, wi… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: We gone an we gone way up tel we git ter er big alablaster house, wid high piazza all roun an roun, wuh shine same luk de sun, buil in de middle er a beautiful gaden wid flower, an fruit, an hummin-bud, an butterfly, an angel wid harp duh sing an duh joy ehself onder de tree. Who acts: We. A sentenc
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 113

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We gone an we gone way up tel we git ter er big alablaster house, wid high piazza all roun an roun, wuh shine same luk de sun, buil in de middle er a beautiful gaden wid flower, an fruit, an hummin-bud, an butterfly, an angel wid harp duh sing an duh joy ehself onder de tree.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** go, way, er, sing · **To what, where:** big alablaster house, duh joy

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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 (We), 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:pg76586:14:113
# text = We gone an we gone way up tel we git ter er big alablaster house, wid high piazza all roun an roun, wuh shine same luk de sun, buil in de middle er a beautiful gaden wid flower, an fruit, an hummin-bud, an butterfly, an angel wid harp duh sing an duh joy ehself onder de tree.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gone	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	er	er	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	alablaster	alablaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	piazza	piazza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	roun	roun	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	conj	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
26	shine	shine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	luk	luk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
29	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	compound	_	_
30	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	buil	buil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	41	advmod	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
38	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
39	gaden	gaden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	hummin	hummin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
55	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	_
56	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	parataxis	_	_
58	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	57	discourse	_	_
59	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
60	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	_
63	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nmod	_	_
64	onder	onder	ADV	RB	_	66	advmod	_	_
65	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	66	nmod:poss	_	_
66	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **way** |  | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **er** | present | we | big alablaster house and shine same luk and de sun and buil in de middle and a beautiful gaden wid flower  a hummin bud and a butterfly  a angel wid harp and a fruit |  |  |  | up tel | tree rules |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | we *not said here* | a duh joy  ehself  de's tree |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location joy=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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