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title: Wen Buh Pattridge an him chillun done eat dem belly full, Buh Pattri… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen Buh Pattridge an him chillun done eat dem belly full, Buh Pattridge gone back to de place way de cow bin kill. Who acts: Wen. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 152

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Wen Buh Pattridge an him chillun done eat dem belly full, Buh Pattridge gone back to de place way de cow bin kill.

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**Who acts:** Wen · **What happens:** do, eat, go back, de · **To what, where:** him chillun, dem belly, Buh, place way

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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), 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:pg76586:2:152
# text = Wen Buh Pattridge an him chillun done eat dem belly full, Buh Pattridge gone back to de place way de cow bin kill.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	compound	_	_
6	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
9	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	de	de	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	conj	_	_
22	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  | a him chillun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | infinitive |  | dem belly |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belly=Patient |
| 3 | **go back** | participle | Wen | Buh |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **de** | infinitive | Wen *not said here* | place way |  |  |  |  | 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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