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title: Wen eh ketch de fiel, Buh Wolf ax um ef eh done bactize tarruh chile… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh ketch de fiel, Buh Wolf ax um ef eh done bactize tarruh chile, an eh answer eh yiz. Who acts: Wen, Buh um ef. 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 of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 143

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Wen eh ketch de fiel, Buh Wolf ax um ef eh done bactize tarruh chile, an eh answer eh yiz.

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**Who acts:** Wen, Buh um ef · **What happens:** eh, do · **To what, where:** ketch, bactize tarruh chile

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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, Buh um ef), 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:pg76586:5:143
# text = Wen eh ketch de fiel, Buh Wolf ax um ef eh done bactize tarruh chile, an eh answer eh yiz.
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	fiel	fiel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	bactize	bactize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	chile	chile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	yiz	yiz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	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 fiel and Buh um ef and a eh eh yiz |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | participle | Buh um ef *not said here* | bactize tarruh chile |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chile=Eventuality |

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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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