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title: Den we will tek er grape-wine an tie um roun Buh Porpus head, an you… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den we will tek er grape-wine an tie um roun Buh Porpus head, an you an me will tek turrer een, an we sholy kin drag Buh Porpus outer de ribber; an wen we git um out eh gwine dead, an we will hab heap er bittle fuh eat.” Who acts: Den, you, we, wen. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast,
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 101

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Den we will tek er grape-wine an tie um roun Buh Porpus head, an you an me will tek turrer een, an we sholy kin drag Buh Porpus outer de ribber; an wen we git um out eh gwine dead, an we will hab heap er bittle fuh eat.”

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**Who acts:** Den, you, we, wen · **What happens:** tek, drag, um out, hab, eat · **To what, where:** er grape wine, turrer, heap

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den, you, we, 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:pg76586:7:101
# text = Den we will tek er grape-wine an tie um roun Buh Porpus head, an you an me will tek turrer een, an we sholy kin drag Buh Porpus outer de ribber; an wen we git um out eh gwine dead, an we will hab heap er bittle fuh eat.”
1	Den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	tek	tek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
6	grape	grape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	tie	tie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	conj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	tek	tek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
23	turrer	turrer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	sholy	sholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	kin	kin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	drag	drag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
31	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
32	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	ribber	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
39	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
42	out	out	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
44	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl:unmarked	_	_
45	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	hab	hab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
51	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
52	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	53	advmod	_	_
53	bittle	bittle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	xcomp	_	_
54	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	55	discourse	_	_
55	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tek** | future | Den | er grape wine |  |  |  | we *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tek** | future | you | turrer and a sholy kin drag |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drag** |  | we |  |  |  |  | Buh  outer de ribber *appos* | tree rules |
| 4 | **um out** |  | a wen |  |  |  |  | we *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hab** | future | we | heap |  |  |  | bittle *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **eat** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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