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title: Wen dem retch de abnue wuh lead from de big road ter de house way de… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen dem retch de abnue wuh lead from de big road ter de house way de Gal lib, dem shum all dress een white duh settin in de piazza. Who acts: ter. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 101

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Wen dem retch de abnue wuh lead from de big road ter de house way de Gal lib, dem shum all dress een white duh settin in de piazza.

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**Who acts:** ter · **What happens:** way · **To what, where:** Wen dem retch

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ter), 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:pg76586:3:101
# text = Wen dem retch de abnue wuh lead from de big road ter de house way de Gal lib, dem shum all dress een white duh settin in de piazza.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	retch	retch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	flat:foreign	_	_
5	abnue	abnue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	nsubj	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	de	de	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	lib	lib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	shum	shum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	_
25	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	settin	settin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	piazza	piazza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **way** |  | ter |  |  |  |  | de Gal lib | 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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