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title: Wen de snake come fuh talk long you, you pick you chance an chop eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen de snake come fuh talk long you, you pick you chance an chop eh head off long you ax, an tek all de money outer um.” Who acts: Wen snake, fuh, you, de money. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4, with its dependency 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 153

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Wen de snake come fuh talk long you, you pick you chance an chop eh head off long you ax, an tek all de money outer um.”

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**Who acts:** Wen snake, fuh, you, de money · **What happens:** come, talk, pick, ax, um · **To what, where:** you

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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 snake, fuh, you, de money), 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:pg76586:4:153
# text = Wen de snake come fuh talk long you, you pick you chance an chop eh head off long you ax, an tek all de money outer um.”
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
6	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pick	pick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	chop	chop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
18	off	off	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	RB	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	compound	_	_
27	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | Wen snake |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **talk** | present | fuh | you |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pick** | present | you | you |  |  |  | chance *obj*; a eh head *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **ax** |  | you |  |  |  |  | a tek *conj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **um** |  | de money |  |  |  |  |  | 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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