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title: Wid dat, an befo Buh Chanticleer kin mek out wuh eh tend fuh do, eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wid dat, an befo Buh Chanticleer kin mek out wuh eh tend fuh do, eh jump pon topper Buh Chanticleer, an mash um ter det, an eat um up. 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 38

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Wid dat, an befo Buh Chanticleer kin mek out wuh eh tend fuh do, eh jump pon topper Buh Chanticleer, an mash um ter det, an eat um up.

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**What happens:** tend, jump, eat up · **To what, where:** Wid dat, Buh, um

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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: 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:pg76586:6:38
# text = Wid dat, an befo Buh Chanticleer kin mek out wuh eh tend fuh do, eh jump pon topper Buh Chanticleer, an mash um ter det, an eat um up.
1	Wid	Wid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Chanticleer	chanticleer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	tend	tend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
18	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
19	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:desc	_	_
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	Chanticleer	Chanticleer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	mash	mash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	det	det	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
32	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tend** | present |  | Wid dat and a befo |  |  |  | fuh *obj* | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuh=Theme |
| 2 | **jump** | infinitive |  | Buh  pon topper |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buh=Agent |
| 3 | **eat up** | present |  | um |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient |

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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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