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title: Wen de tetter done mek an dig, all de bud collec togarruh, an ebry o… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen de tetter done mek an dig, all de bud collec togarruh, an ebry one fotch a tetter ter show wuh kind a crop eh mek. 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 194

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Wen de tetter done mek an dig, all de bud collec togarruh, an ebry one fotch a tetter ter show wuh kind a crop eh mek.

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**What happens:** do, show · **To what, where:** Wen, kind

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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:pg76586:2:194
# text = Wen de tetter done mek an dig, all de bud collec togarruh, an ebry one fotch a tetter ter show wuh kind a crop eh mek.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	tetter	tetter	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
5	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dig	dig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
10	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	collec	collec	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	togarruh	togarruh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	ebry	ebry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	fotch	fotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	tetter	tetter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
22	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
24	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
28	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | infinitive · passive |  | Wen |  |  |  | mek *obj*; a dig and all de bud collec and a ebry one fotch *obj*; a tetter ter *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | present |  | kind |  |  |  | a crop eh *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent kind=Recipient eh=Topic |

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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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