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title: Anybody wuh gwine back on eh prommus, an try fuh harm de pusson wuh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Anybody wuh gwine back on eh prommus, an try fuh harm de pusson wuh done um a faber, sho ter meet up wid big trouble. Who acts: Anybody. 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 o
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 3

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Anybody wuh gwine back on eh prommus, an try fuh harm de pusson wuh done um a faber, sho ter meet up wid big trouble.

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**Who acts:** Anybody · **What happens:** gwine back, do, meet up · **To what, where:** pusson wuh, sho ter, eh prommus

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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 (Anybody), 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:pg76586:5:3
# text = Anybody wuh gwine back on eh prommus, an try fuh harm de pusson wuh done um a faber, sho ter meet up wid big trouble.
1	Anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
2	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	gwine	gwine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	prommus	prommus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
14	pusson	pusson	X	FW	_	15	compound	_	_
15	wuh	wuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	um	um	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	faber	faber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	22	compound	_	_
22	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
23	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gwine back** | infinitive | Anybody |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | participle |  | pusson wuh *not said here* |  |  |  | um a faber | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **meet up** | present |  | sho ter |  | eh prommus |  | wid big trouble *obj* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Co-Agent |

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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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