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title: Wen de time come fuh go, eh dress ehself up an eh light out. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen de time come fuh go, eh dress ehself up an eh light out. Who acts: Wen time. 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 118

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Wen de time come fuh go, eh dress ehself up an eh light out.

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**Who acts:** Wen time · **What happens:** come, go, dress up · **To what, where:** ehself

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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 time), 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:pg76586:3:118
# text = Wen de time come fuh go, eh dress ehself up an eh light out.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	dress	dress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | Wen time |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | Wen time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dress up** | infinitive | Wen time *not said here* | ehself |  |  |  | a eh light *obj* | 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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