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title: “We gone up de step an enter de pahler, way de great God bin er set… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: “We gone up de step an enter de pahler, way de great God bin er set on eh golden trone. Who acts: We, you, God. 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 clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 115

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“We gone up de step an enter de pahler, way de great God bin er set on eh golden trone.

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**Who acts:** We, you, God · **What happens:** go up, step, er, set · **To what, where:** enter, great bin er, eh golden trone

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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, you, God), 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:pg76586:14:115
# text = “We gone up de step an enter de pahler, way de great God bin er set on eh golden trone.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	_
6	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	enter	enter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
10	pahler	pahler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	de	de	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	trone	trone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** *in a quote* | participle | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **step** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | a enter and de pahler |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location enter=Theme |
| 3 | **er** *in a quote* |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **set** *in a quote* | participle |  | great bin er *not said here* |  | eh golden trone |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on trone=Destination |

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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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