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title: Wen de Gallinipper see wuh de ole man up teh, eh rare back an try fu… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen de Gallinipper see wuh de ole man up teh, eh rare back an try fur pull eh bill outer de tree. Who acts: Wen, try fur. 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 186

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Wen de Gallinipper see wuh de ole man up teh, eh rare back an try fur pull eh bill outer de tree.

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**Who acts:** Wen, try fur · **What happens:** see, pull · **To what, where:** de ole man, eh bill

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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, try fur), 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:pg76586:2:186
# text = Wen de Gallinipper see wuh de ole man up teh, eh rare back an try fur pull eh bill outer de tree.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Gallinipper	Gallinipper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
7	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	teh	teh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
19	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	compound	_	_
23	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Wen | de ole man up teh |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **pull** | infinitive | a try fur | eh bill |  |  |  | outer de tree *obj* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent bill=Theme tree=Result |

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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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