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title: Wen we git ter dat spot, lo an behole! day was de mouf er Hell. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen we git ter dat spot, lo an behole! day was de mouf er Hell. Who acts: we, git day. 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 143

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Wen we git ter dat spot, lo an behole! day was de mouf er Hell.

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**Who acts:** we, git day · **What happens:** git, be · **To what, where:** de mouf er

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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, git day), 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:pg76586:14:143
# text = Wen we git ter dat spot, lo an behole! day was de mouf er Hell.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
4	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	behole	behole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	mouf	mouf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	Hell	Hell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **git** |  | we |  |  |  |  | ter dat spot; a behole *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | git day | de mouf er |  |  |  | Hell *appos* | tree rules |

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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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