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title: Wen we bin er wam we han an we foot roun de fire, yuh come ole Uncle… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen we bin er wam we han an we foot roun de fire, yuh come ole Uncle Andrew, wuh nusen ter dribe fur ole Mossa, an ole Uncle Jupter, wuh bin de gadner, an ole Aunt Peggy. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 35

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Wen we bin er wam we han an we foot roun de fire, yuh come ole Uncle Andrew, wuh nusen ter dribe fur ole Mossa, an ole Uncle Jupter, wuh bin de gadner, an ole Aunt Peggy.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** bin, han, foot, come, dribe · **To what, where:** Wen, ole Mossa

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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:pg76586:14:35
# text = Wen we bin er wam we han an we foot roun de fire, yuh come ole Uncle Andrew, wuh nusen ter dribe fur ole Mossa, an ole Uncle Jupter, wuh bin de gadner, an ole Aunt Peggy.
1	Wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
5	wam	wam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	roun	roun	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	conj	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat	_	_
13	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	yuh	yuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
22	nusen	nusen	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	dep	_	_
23	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	dep	_	_
24	dribe	dribe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
25	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Jupter	Jupter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	wuh	wuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
36	de	de	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	gadner	gadner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
42	Peggy	Peggy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | we | Wen |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **han** |  | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **foot** |  | we |  |  |  |  | fire *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ole Uncle Andrew *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **dribe** | infinitive | we *not said here* | ole Mossa  fur and Uncle Jupter |  |  |  |  | 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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