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title: Wen eh fine eh cant ketch eh bref, eh gone off leely way an eh watch… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh fine eh cant ketch eh bref, eh gone off leely way an eh watch um. Who acts: Wen. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 101

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Wen eh fine eh cant ketch eh bref, eh gone off leely way an eh watch um.

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**Who acts:** Wen · **What happens:** eh, go off · **To what, where:** fine eh cant eh bref, way

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen), 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:pg76586:6:101
# text = Wen eh fine eh cant ketch eh bref, eh gone off leely way an eh watch um.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
4	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bref	bref	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	leely	leely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eh** | past | Wen | fine eh cant eh bref |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go off** | participle | Wen *not said here* | way |  |  |  | a eh watch um *obl* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |

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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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