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title: Wen dem all was a settin fuh de match, Buh Rabbit, him say: “Gentlem… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen dem all was a settin fuh de match, Buh Rabbit, him say: “Gentlemans, my fader had a black horse. Who acts: Wen dem, RABBIT, Gentlemans. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 111

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Wen dem all was a settin fuh de match, Buh Rabbit, him say: “Gentlemans, my fader had a black horse.

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**Who acts:** Wen dem, RABBIT, Gentlemans · **What happens:** be, say, have · **To what, where:** settin fuh, black horse · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen dem, RABBIT, Gentlemans), 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:pg76586:2:111
# text = Wen dem all was a settin fuh de match, Buh Rabbit, him say: “Gentlemans, my fader had a black horse.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	settin	settin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
9	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Gentlemans	Gentleman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	fader	fader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Wen dem | a settin fuh |  |  |  | de match *nmod*; Buh Rabbit *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | RABBIT |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Gentlemans | a black horse |  |  |  | my fader *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |

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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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