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title: Wen eh fine de Bear done gone fuh sho, eh holler ter him fren say: “… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh fine de Bear done gone fuh sho, eh holler ter him fren say: “Wuh de Bear bin tell you? Who acts: Wen, fine de Bear, fren. 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 106

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Wen eh fine de Bear done gone fuh sho, eh holler ter him fren say: “Wuh de Bear bin tell you?

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**Who acts:** Wen, fine de Bear, fren · **What happens:** eh, do, say, bear, tell · **To what, where:** fine de Bear, gone sho, holler, bin, you · **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 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, fine de Bear, fren), 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:pg76586:6:106
# text = Wen eh fine de Bear done gone fuh sho, eh holler ter him fren say: “Wuh de Bear bin tell you?
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	5	amod	_	_
4	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
13	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	fren	fren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
20	de	de	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	Bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
22	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	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 de Bear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | participle | fine de Bear *not said here* | gone sho |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sho=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | fren | holler ter Wen |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bear** *in a quote* |  |  | bin |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bin=Patient |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |

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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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