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title: Wen ebry body done gedder eh perwision, dem shet de do an gone ter d… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen ebry body done gedder eh perwision, dem shet de do an gone ter dem house fuh ten ter dem bidness an wait tel winter come, wen dem gwine lib offer wuh dem bin pit way. Who acts: Wen, gone ter dem house. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 67

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Wen ebry body done gedder eh perwision, dem shet de do an gone ter dem house fuh ten ter dem bidness an wait tel winter come, wen dem gwine lib offer wuh dem bin pit way.

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**Who acts:** Wen, gone ter dem house · **What happens:** do, wait, come, offer · **To what, where:** perwision, gone ter dem house, dem gwine lib

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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, gone ter dem house), 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:pg76586:5:67
# text = Wen ebry body done gedder eh perwision, dem shet de do an gone ter dem house fuh ten ter dem bidness an wait tel winter come, wen dem gwine lib offer wuh dem bin pit way.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ebry	ebry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
5	gedder	gedd	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	perwision	perwision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	shet	shet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	conj	_	_
20	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	bidness	bidness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
25	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	lib	lib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
33	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
34	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	38	discourse	_	_
35	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle | Wen and ebry body | eh perwision and dem shet |  |  |  | gedd *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perwision=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | present |  | a gone ter dem house |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Eventuality |
| 3 | **wait** | present | a gone ter dem house *not said here* |  |  |  | winter | ter dem bidness; ten *conj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | infinitive | a gone ter dem house *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **offer** | present |  | dem gwine lib |  |  |  | pit way *obl* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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