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title: Wen Buh Monkey git ter de wood, eh state fuh clime de fus tree eh co… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen Buh Monkey git ter de wood, eh state fuh clime de fus tree eh come teh. Who acts: fus tree eh. 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 86

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Wen Buh Monkey git ter de wood, eh state fuh clime de fus tree eh come teh.

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**Who acts:** fus tree eh · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** Monkey git ter

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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 (fus tree eh), 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:pg76586:4:86
# text = Wen Buh Monkey git ter de wood, eh state fuh clime de fus tree eh come teh.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
10	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	clime	clime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat	_	_
14	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
18	teh	teh	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | fus tree eh |  |  |  |  | teh *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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