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title: Wen eh pit de cheese back een de scale, an hole um up gen, Buh Cat a… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh pit de cheese back een de scale, an hole um up gen, Buh Cat an Buh Rat, dem bofe call out: “Hole on, Jedge! Who acts: Wen, hole. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 43

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Wen eh pit de cheese back een de scale, an hole um up gen, Buh Cat an Buh Rat, dem bofe call out: “Hole on, Jedge!

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**Who acts:** Wen, hole · **What happens:** scale, um up, call out, hole on · **To what, where:** gen, dem bofe · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, hole), 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:pg76586:5:43
# text = Wen eh pit de cheese back een de scale, an hole um up gen, Buh Cat an Buh Rat, dem bofe call out: “Hole on, Jedge!
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	de	de	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
9	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	um	um	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Cat	Cat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	bofe	bofe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
25	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Hole	hole	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Jedge	Jedge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scale** |  | Wen |  |  |  |  | eh pit de cheese *nsubj*; Buh Cat *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **um up** | infinitive | a hole | gen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call out** *speech: express* | present |  | dem bofe |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hole on** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | Jedge *vocative* | tree rules |

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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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