--- title: Wen eh duh bleed ter det, an dis befo eh dead, Buh Snake, him say te… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics description: Wen eh duh bleed ter det, an dis befo eh dead, Buh Snake, him say ter um: “Enty me bin tell you, wen me gen you dat silber money, ef you tell you wife way you git um you guine dead one po man? Who acts: Wen, you, gen, wife way. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen, you, gen, wife way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg76586:4:170 # text = Wen eh duh bleed ter det, an dis befo eh dead, Buh Snake, him say ter um: “Enty me bin tell you, wen me gen you dat silber money, ef you tell you wife way you git um you guine dead one po man? 1 Wen Wen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 eh eh X GW _ 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 duh duh INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ 4 bleed bleed VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 ter ter X FW _ 6 compound _ _ 6 det det NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 dis dis NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 befo befo ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 eh eh NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 Buh Buh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Snake Snake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 “ " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Enty enty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 appos _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 25 bin bin PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 wen wen NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 31 gen gen NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 dat dat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 silber silber NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 iobj _ _ 41 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 43 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 ccomp _ _ 46 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 guine guine VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 acl:relcl _ _ 48 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 49 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 50 nummod _ _ 50 po po NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bleed** | infinitive | Wen | ter det | | | | Buh Snake *obl* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent det=Source | | 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | wen | ter um | | | | me *obj* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme i=Manner | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | wen *not said here* | wen | wen | | | you *iobj* | tree rules | | 4 | **dat** *in a quote* | present | you | gen *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **money** *in a quote* | | gen | | | | | ef *conj* | tree rules | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you | silber money and ef *not said here* | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 7 | **um** *in a quote* | | wife way | | | | | you *nsubj* | tree rules | | 8 | **guine** *in a quote* | present | you | dead po man | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 169](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/4/169/) - next →: [sentence 171](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/4/171/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/4/)