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title: Wen night come, an ebryting on de plantation done gone bed, de Mossa… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen night come, an ebryting on de plantation done gone bed, de Mossa, him tek one long white gown wuh ketch down ter eh foot, an eh pit um on, an eh gone ter de Ole Man house. Who acts: Wen night, ebryting, Mossa. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 116

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Wen night come, an ebryting on de plantation done gone bed, de Mossa, him tek one long white gown wuh ketch down ter eh foot, an eh pit um on, an eh gone ter de Ole Man house.

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**Who acts:** Wen night, ebryting, Mossa · **What happens:** come, do, tek down, go · **To what, where:** ebryting, gone bed, one long white gown, eh

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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 night, ebryting, Mossa), 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:pg76586:6:116
# text = Wen night come, an ebryting on de plantation done gone bed, de Mossa, him tek one long white gown wuh ketch down ter eh foot, an eh pit um on, an eh gone ter de Ole Man house.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ebryting	ebryting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
9	plantation	plantation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
11	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	advmod	_	_
15	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	tek	tek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
24	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
26	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
27	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	_
38	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
39	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	38	flat:foreign	_	_
40	de	de	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Wen night | a ebryting on de plantation and Mossa |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | participle | a ebryting on de plantation and Mossa *not said here* | gone bed |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Eventuality |
| 3 | **tek down** | infinitive | Mossa | one long white gown and ketch |  |  |  | ter and eh foot and a eh pit um *obj*; a eh *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | participle |  | a eh *not said here* |  |  |  | de Man house | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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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