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title: Wen you chillun git big nough fuh wuk, mek um wuk. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen you chillun git big nough fuh wuk, mek um wuk. 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 2

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Wen you chillun git big nough fuh wuk, mek um wuk.

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**Who acts:** Wen · **What happens:** chillun · **To what, where:** git

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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:pg76586:6:2
# text = Wen you chillun git big nough fuh wuk, mek um wuk.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	chillun	chillun	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	nough	nough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chillun** | present | Wen | git |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | 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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