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title: Wen eh crow you could yeddy um all tru de settlement. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh crow you could yeddy um all tru de settlement. Who acts: Wen, you. 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 12

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Wen eh crow you could yeddy um all tru de settlement.

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**Who acts:** Wen, you · **What happens:** crow, um · **To what, where:** tru settlement

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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, you), 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:pg76586:6:12
# text = Wen eh crow you could yeddy um all tru de settlement.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	crow	crow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	yeddy	yeddy	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	um	um	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
9	tru	tru	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	amod	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat	_	_
11	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crow** | infinitive | Wen |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **um** | could | you | all tru settlement |  |  |  | yeddy *property* | 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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