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title: De hen all lub um, an run ter um wenebber him call. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De hen all lub um, an run ter um wenebber him call. Who acts: De hen, 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 13

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De hen all lub um, an run ter um wenebber him call.

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**Who acts:** De hen, Wen · **What happens:** run, call · **To what, where:** ter · **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 (De hen, 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:pg76586:6:13
# text = De hen all lub um, an run ter um wenebber him call.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	lub	lub	X	FW	_	5	compound	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	um	um	X	GW	_	8	obj	_	_
11	wenebber	wenebber	X	NN	_	10	goeswith	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | De hen | ter |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent ter=Beneficiary um=Product |
| 2 | **call** | present | Wen |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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