--- title: Wen de house done buil, de animel, dem fetch ebry man eh own perwisi… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics description: Wen de house done buil, de animel, dem fetch ebry man eh own perwision, an pack um way een eh own place way eh kin git um wen fros fall, an de grass done dead, an de tree done drap eh leaf an eh fruit. Who acts: dem, kin wen fros. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernac --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/60/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Negro myths from the Georgia coast, to…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/) / [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/) / 60 # Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 60 Wen de house done buil, de animel, dem fetch ebry man eh own perwision, an pack um way een eh own place way eh kin git um wen fros fall, an de grass done dead, an de tree done drap eh leaf an eh fruit. **Who acts:** dem, kin wen fros · **What happens:** do, man, fall, drap · **To what, where:** own perwision, own place way, de grass, de tree, eh leaf, house done buil 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 (dem, kin wen fros), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg76586:5:60 # text = Wen de house done buil, de animel, dem fetch ebry man eh own perwision, an pack um way een eh own place way eh kin git um wen fros fall, an de grass done dead, an de tree done drap eh leaf an eh fruit. 1 Wen Wen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 buil buil NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 8 compound _ _ 8 animel animel NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 dem dem NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 fetch fetch NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 ebry ebry NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 14 eh eh INTJ UH _ 16 discourse _ _ 15 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 perwision perwision NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 22 een een NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 flat _ _ 23 eh eh ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 eh eh ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 kin kin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 29 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 wen wen NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 fros fro NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 fall fall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 38 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl _ _ 39 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 44 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 acl _ _ 45 drap drap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 xcomp _ _ 46 eh eh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 eh eh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | participle | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **man** | | dem | own perwision | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fall** | present | kin wen fros | own place way | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **do** | participle | | a de grass *not said here* | | | | dead *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **do** | participle | | a de tree *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **drap** | infinitive | | eh leaf a eh fruit | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/61/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/)