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title: Wen eh meet eh wife an chillun, an show um eh tail wuh bite off, an… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh meet eh wife an chillun, an show um eh tail wuh bite off, an tell um wuh eh bin tru, dem all mek er great miration, an dem all conclude dem know nuff bout trouble, an yent want see um no mo. Who acts: Wen, mek great miration, dem, yent want. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 100

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Wen eh meet eh wife an chillun, an show um eh tail wuh bite off, an tell um wuh eh bin tru, dem all mek er great miration, an dem all conclude dem know nuff bout trouble, an yent want see um no mo.

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**Who acts:** Wen, mek great miration, dem, yent want · **What happens:** meet, bite off, conclude, know, see · **To what, where:** eh wife, bin tru, nuff bout trouble, 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen, mek great miration, dem, yent want), 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:pg76586:4:100
# text = Wen eh meet eh wife an chillun, an show um eh tail wuh bite off, an tell um wuh eh bin tru, dem all mek er great miration, an dem all conclude dem know nuff bout trouble, an yent want see um no mo.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	meet	meet	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	eh	eh	X	AFX	_	11	appos	_	_
13	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
14	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
22	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	tru	tru	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
28	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
29	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	miration	miration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	all	all	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	conclude	conclude	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
37	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	ccomp	_	_
39	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
40	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
47	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
48	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	49	det	_	_
49	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | infinitive | Wen | eh wife |  |  |  | a tell um *obl*; a chillun's tail *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bite off** | infinitive | Wen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **conclude** | present | all mek great miration and a dem | eh bin tru and dem *not said here* |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | present | dem | nuff bout trouble |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer trouble=Stimulus |
| 5 | **see** | infinitive | a yent want | um |  |  |  | no mo *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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