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title: Wen eh git der fiel eh look up an down, an eh yent see no sign er Bu… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh git der fiel eh look up an down, an eh yent see no sign er Buh Rabbit. Who acts: git der fiel, eh yent. 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 60

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Wen eh git der fiel eh look up an down, an eh yent see no sign er Buh Rabbit.

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**Who acts:** git der fiel, eh yent · **What happens:** look up, see · **To what, where:** down, sign, git der fiel

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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 (git der fiel, eh yent), 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:pg76586:6:60
# text = Wen eh git der fiel eh look up an down, an eh yent see no sign er Buh Rabbit.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
3	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	fiel	fiel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	eh	eh	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	er	er	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look up** | infinitive | git der fiel  Wen *not said here* | a down |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme down=Attribute |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | a eh yent | no sign |  |  |  | er Buh Rabbit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus |

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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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