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title: Wile dis duh guine on, de sanfly mose eat up Buh Wolf. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wile dis duh guine on, de sanfly mose eat up Buh Wolf. Who acts: de. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 114

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Wile dis duh guine on, de sanfly mose eat up Buh Wolf.

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**Who acts:** de · **What happens:** dis on, mose, eat up · **To what, where:** guine, Buh Wolf

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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 (de), 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:pg76586:2:114
# text = Wile dis duh guine on, de sanfly mose eat up Buh Wolf.
1	Wile	wile	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	dis	dis	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	nsubj	_	_
8	sanfly	sanfly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	mose	mose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dis on** |  |  | guine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mose** | infinitive | de |  |  |  |  | sanfly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat up** | infinitive | de *not said here* | Buh Wolf |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=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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