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title: Wen eh ketch de middle er de fiel, eh top, an eh onloose de bag. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh ketch de middle er de fiel, eh top, an eh onloose de bag. Who acts: Wen. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 79

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Wen eh ketch de middle er de fiel, eh top, an eh onloose de bag.

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**Who acts:** Wen · **What happens:** eh · **To what, where:** ketch

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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), 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:pg76586:4:79
# text = Wen eh ketch de middle er de fiel, eh top, an eh onloose de bag.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	flat:foreign	_	_
5	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	er	er	X	FW	_	8	compound	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
8	fiel	fiel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	onloose	onloose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eh** | past | Wen | ketch and middle er fiel |  |  |  | top and a eh de bag *obl* | 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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