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title: Wid dat, eh fly from onder dem, an de noung bud, wen eh fine out eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wid dat, eh fly from onder dem, an de noung bud, wen eh fine out eh murrer yent gwine cahr um no furder, an dat dem haffer shif fuh demself, dem try eh wing an sail off een de element duh hunt bittle. Who acts: you, eh wing. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 178

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Wid dat, eh fly from onder dem, an de noung bud, wen eh fine out eh murrer yent gwine cahr um no furder, an dat dem haffer shif fuh demself, dem try eh wing an sail off een de element duh hunt bittle.

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**Who acts:** you, eh wing · **What happens:** fly, try, hunt · **To what, where:** Wid, dem, bittle

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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 (you, eh wing), 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:pg76586:5:178
# text = Wid dat, eh fly from onder dem, an de noung bud, wen eh fine out eh murrer yent gwine cahr um no furder, an dat dem haffer shif fuh demself, dem try eh wing an sail off een de element duh hunt bittle.
1	Wid	Wid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	fly	fly	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	onder	onder	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	noung	noung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	parataxis	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	murrer	murre	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
21	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	cahr	cahr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
24	um	um	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	furder	furder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	haffer	haffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	shif	shif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
33	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	_
34	demself	demself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
37	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
38	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
42	off	off	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
44	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
46	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	47	discourse	_	_
47	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	parataxis	_	_
48	bittle	bittle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | imperative | you *not said here* | Wid |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | present | you *not said here* |  |  | dem |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hunt** | infinitive | eh wing | bittle |  |  |  | a sail off een de element *nsubj* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bittle=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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