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title: Wen dem all bin dance tel dem tired, dem all bague Buh Rooster fuh s… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen dem all bin dance tel dem tired, dem all bague Buh Rooster fuh show dem de man wuh bin mek sich pooty music fuh dem fuh dance long. Who acts: Wen dem. 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 an
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 155

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Wen dem all bin dance tel dem tired, dem all bague Buh Rooster fuh show dem de man wuh bin mek sich pooty music fuh dem fuh dance long.

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**Who acts:** Wen dem · **What happens:** show · **To what, where:** dem man

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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 dem), 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:pg76586:3:155
# text = Wen dem all bin dance tel dem tired, dem all bague Buh Rooster fuh show dem de man wuh bin mek sich pooty music fuh dem fuh dance long.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
4	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
8	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	bague	bague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
21	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
22	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	sich	sich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	pooty	pooty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	_
27	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	_
30	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | infinitive | Wen dem |  | dem man |  |  | bin pooty music *obl*; all tel dem and dem *nsubj*; all bague *nsubj*; dem fuh dance *ccomp* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |

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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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