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title: Wen eh git ter de place way de road fork, eh stop an eh consider. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh git ter de place way de road fork, eh stop an eh consider. Who acts: Wen, 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 119

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Wen eh git ter de place way de road fork, eh stop an eh consider.

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**Who acts:** Wen, ter · **What happens:** eh, way, stop, consider · **To what, where:** git, eh

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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, 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:pg76586:3:119
# text = Wen eh git ter de place way de road fork, eh stop an eh consider.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	nsubj	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
8	de	de	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eh** | past | Wen | git |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **way** |  | ter |  |  |  |  | de road fork | tree rules |
| 3 | **stop** | infinitive |  | a eh |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality eh=Eventuality |
| 4 | **consider** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |

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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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