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title: Wen eh git een de wood, eh slip roun onbeknowinst ter Buh Wolf, an g… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh git een de wood, eh slip roun onbeknowinst ter Buh Wolf, an gone een him house an eat hebby outer de pan er butter. Who acts: Wen. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 121

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Wen eh git een de wood, eh slip roun onbeknowinst ter Buh Wolf, an gone een him house an eat hebby outer de pan er butter.

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**Who acts:** Wen · **What happens:** eh, slip, eat · **To what, where:** git, roun, gone een

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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 5. 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:pg76586:5:121
# text = Wen eh git een de wood, eh slip roun onbeknowinst ter Buh Wolf, an gone een him house an eat hebby outer de pan er butter.
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	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
6	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	roun	roun	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	onbeknowinst	onbeknowinst	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
12	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:unmarked	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:unmarked	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	hebby	hebby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	obl	_	_
26	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	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 | git and de wood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **slip** | infinitive | Wen *not said here* | roun ter Buh Wolf |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent roun=Patient |
| 3 | **eat** | present | Wen *not said here* | a gone een  Wen  house |  |  |  | hebby *obj*; outer *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hebby=Patient |

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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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