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title: Wenebber, duh night, eh yeddy any er um duh crow er der fix ehself t… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wenebber, duh night, eh yeddy any er um duh crow er der fix ehself topper eh roose, eh mek fuh de place an eat um up. Who acts: Wenebber, topper, de place. 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 161

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Wenebber, duh night, eh yeddy any er um duh crow er der fix ehself topper eh roose, eh mek fuh de place an eat um up.

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**Who acts:** Wenebber, topper, de place · **What happens:** crow, fix, roose, eat up · **To what, where:** mek, ehself, um

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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 (Wenebber, topper, de place), 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:pg76586:3:161
# text = Wenebber, duh night, eh yeddy any er um duh crow er der fix ehself topper eh roose, eh mek fuh de place an eat um up.
1	Wenebber	Wenebber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
11	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	crow	crow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
14	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	xcomp	_	_
15	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
16	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	roose	roose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
22	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
23	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	compound	_	_
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crow** | infinitive | Wenebber  yeddy | mek |  |  |  | de place *obl* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fix** | infinitive | Wenebber  yeddy *not said here* | ehself |  |  |  | topper *obj* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent ehself=Beneficiary topper=Product |
| 3 | **roose** | infinitive | topper *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat up** | present | de place *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient |

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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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