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title: Wen eh done eat um, an eh duh lick eh mout, Buh Chanticleer ax um: “… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh done eat um, an eh duh lick eh mout, Buh Chanticleer ax um: “How you luk um?” Who acts: 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 33

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Wen eh done eat um, an eh duh lick eh mout, Buh Chanticleer ax um: “How you luk um?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** do, eat, um · **To what, where:** Wen, um · **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 (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:pg76586:6:33
# text = Wen eh done eat um, an eh duh lick eh mout, Buh Chanticleer ax um: “How you luk um?”
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	lick	lick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	mout	mout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
15	Chanticleer	chanticleer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	luk	luk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · passive |  | Wen |  |  |  | Buh ax um *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | infinitive |  | um and a eh duh eh mout |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient |
| 3 | **um** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | 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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