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title: Wen dem all gedder, dem tell de Lion--wuh bin de king beast--fuh qui… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen dem all gedder, dem tell de Lion--wuh bin de king beast--fuh quire bout who day eenside. Who acts: Wen dem, fuh quire bout. 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 every c
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 91

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Wen dem all gedder, dem tell de Lion--wuh bin de king beast--fuh quire bout who day eenside.

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**Who acts:** Wen dem, fuh quire bout · **What happens:** tell, eenside · **To what, where:** bin · **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 dem, fuh quire bout), 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:pg76586:5:91
# text = Wen dem all gedder, dem tell de Lion--wuh bin de king beast--fuh quire bout who day eenside.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	gedder	gedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	de	de	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	de	de	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	quire	quire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	eenside	eenside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Wen dem  all gedder and dem | bin de king beast and fuh quire bout |  |  |  | de Lion | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **eenside** |  | fuh quire bout |  |  |  |  |  | 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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