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title: De Debble tell um fuh go een de kitchin an wait topper um, an wen eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Debble tell um fuh go een de kitchin an wait topper um, an wen eh done eh brukwus him will come out an mek um sensible bout dis ting wuh call trouble. Who acts: De, um fuh, wen eh, sensible dis ting. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jon
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 65

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De Debble tell um fuh go een de kitchin an wait topper um, an wen eh done eh brukwus him will come out an mek um sensible bout dis ting wuh call trouble.

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**Who acts:** De, um fuh, wen eh, sensible dis ting · **What happens:** tell, go, do, come out, call · **To what, where:** um fuh, een kitchin, wen eh, mek um, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (De, um fuh, wen eh, sensible dis ting), 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:pg76586:4:65
# text = De Debble tell um fuh go een de kitchin an wait topper um, an wen eh done eh brukwus him will come out an mek um sensible bout dis ting wuh call trouble.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Debble	Debble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	amod	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat	_	_
9	kitchin	kitchin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	brukwus	brukwus	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
24	out	out	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	33	discourse	_	_
33	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
34	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | De | um fuh |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent fuh=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | infinitive | um fuh *not said here* | een kitchin |  |  |  | a topper um *obl* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kitchin=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | participle |  | a wen eh *not said here* |  |  |  | brukwus Eh | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come out** | future | a wen eh | a mek um |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **call** | infinitive | sensible dis ting | trouble |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent trouble=Recipient |

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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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