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title: Wen dem look pon topper Buh Owl, eh yeye so big, an eh yez cock up s… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen dem look pon topper Buh Owl, eh yeye so big, an eh yez cock up so high, eh skade de people, an dem all holler an run. Who acts: Wen dem, high eh skade. 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 a
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 158

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Wen dem look pon topper Buh Owl, eh yeye so big, an eh yez cock up so high, eh skade de people, an dem all holler an run.

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**Who acts:** Wen dem, high eh skade · **What happens:** look, cock up, run · **To what, where:** pon topper

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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, high eh skade), 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:pg76586:3:158
# text = Wen dem look pon topper Buh Owl, eh yeye so big, an eh yez cock up so high, eh skade de people, an dem all holler an run.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	Owl	Owl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
16	yez	yez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	dep	_	_
17	cock	cock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
20	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	skade	skade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
24	de	de	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | infinitive | Wen dem | pon topper |  |  |  | yeye *obl* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme topper=Attribute |
| 2 | **cock up** | infinitive | Wen dem *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **run** |  | high eh skade de people and a dem |  |  |  |  | all holler *nsubj* | 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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