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title: Wen dey guine tru de big gate, Buh Rabbit light off eh back an jump… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen dey guine tru de big gate, Buh Rabbit light off eh back an jump on top de gate pose. 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 141

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Wen dey guine tru de big gate, Buh Rabbit light off eh back an jump on top de gate pose.

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**To what, where:** de gate pose

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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: 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:pg76586:2:141
# text = Wen dey guine tru de big gate, Buh Rabbit light off eh back an jump on top de gate pose.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
4	tru	tru	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	conj	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	pose	pose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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