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title: Wen de sun duh lean fuh down, an de man bin a try fuh split one big… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen de sun duh lean fuh down, an de man bin a try fuh split one big log, Buh Snake crawl up long sider de log an show ehself ter de man. Who acts: Wen sun, de man, try fuh, Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4, with
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 157

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Wen de sun duh lean fuh down, an de man bin a try fuh split one big log, Buh Snake crawl up long sider de log an show ehself ter de man.

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**Who acts:** Wen sun, de man, try fuh, Buh, show · **What happens:** lean down, bin, split, crawl up, log, man · **To what, where:** one big log, long sider de

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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 sun, de man, try fuh, Buh), 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:pg76586:4:157
# text = Wen de sun duh lean fuh down, an de man bin a try fuh split one big log, Buh Snake crawl up long sider de log an show ehself ter de man.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	Snake	Snake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	crawl	crawl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	sider	sider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	log	log	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
31	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	ter	ter	X	FW	_	34	compound	_	_
33	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	flat:foreign	_	_
34	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lean down** | infinitive | Wen sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bin** | infinitive | a de man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **split** | past | a try fuh | one big log |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Patient |
| 4 | **crawl up** | present | Buh | long sider de |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **log** | infinitive | Buh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **man** |  | a show |  |  |  |  | ehself *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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