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title: Wid dat de Lord, him call teh one angel, an eh tell um fuh bring one… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wid dat de Lord, him call teh one angel, an eh tell um fuh bring one chair an set um down befo eh trone. Who acts: Lord. 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 117

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Wid dat de Lord, him call teh one angel, an eh tell um fuh bring one chair an set um down befo eh trone.

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**Who acts:** Lord · **What happens:** call, bring down · **To what, where:** Wid dat, one chair · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Lord), 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:pg76586:14:117
# text = Wid dat de Lord, him call teh one angel, an eh tell um fuh bring one chair an set um down befo eh trone.
1	Wid	Wid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	de	de	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	teh	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art|Typo=Yes	10	det	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
24	befo	befo	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	trone	trone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | Lord | Wid dat de Lord |  |  |  | the one angel and a eh um fuh *obj* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent angel=Recipient |
| 2 | **bring down** | infinitive | Lord *not said here* | one chair |  |  |  | befo eh trone; a set um *obj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument chair=Theme um=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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