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title: Wen Buh Wolf fine out eh cant do nuttne, eh keep de abnue straight f… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen Buh Wolf fine out eh cant do nuttne, eh keep de abnue straight fur de house. Who acts: Wen. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 105

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Wen Buh Wolf fine out eh cant do nuttne, eh keep de abnue straight fur de house.

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**Who acts:** Wen · **What happens:** fine out, do, keep · **To what, where:** nuttne, de abnue

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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 (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:pg76586:3:105
# text = Wen Buh Wolf fine out eh cant do nuttne, eh keep de abnue straight fur de house.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	fine	fine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	cant	cant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	compound	_	_
14	abnue	abnue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fine out** | past | Wen |  |  |  |  | eh cant | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | Wen *not said here* | nuttne |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nuttne=Eventuality |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | Wen *not said here* | de abnue |  |  |  | fur de house *obl* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abnue=Theme |

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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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