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title: Wen you want somebody fuh do you sarbis, call pon you fren, but dont… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen you want somebody fuh do you sarbis, call pon you fren, but dont trus you eenemy fuh done um. Who acts: Wen, you, eenemy fuh. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 39

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Wen you want somebody fuh do you sarbis, call pon you fren, but dont trus you eenemy fuh done um.

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**Who acts:** Wen, you, eenemy fuh · **What happens:** want, do, call, fren, fuh · **To what, where:** somebody fuh, you, pon, 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 (Wen, you, eenemy fuh), 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:pg76586:6:39
# text = Wen you want somebody fuh do you sarbis, call pon you fren, but dont trus you eenemy fuh done um.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	compound	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	sarbis	sarbis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fren	fren	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	dont	dont	X	FW	_	17	compound	_	_
17	trus	trus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	eenemy	eenemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Wen | somebody fuh |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fuh=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | Wen *not said here* | you |  |  |  | sarbis *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | infinitive |  | pon |  |  |  | dont trus *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pon=Recipient |
| 4 | **fren** | present | you | pon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fuh** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | participle | eenemy fuh *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Eventuality |

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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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