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title: Wile eh duh tan onder one berry tree, one robin-red-bres, wuh bin er… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wile eh duh tan onder one berry tree, one robin-red-bres, wuh bin er eat de berry, choke an fall der groun. Who acts: you, one, robin red bres. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 6

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Wile eh duh tan onder one berry tree, one robin-red-bres, wuh bin er eat de berry, choke an fall der groun.

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**Who acts:** you, one, robin red bres · **What happens:** wile, tan, bre, eat, choke · **To what, where:** one berry tree, berry, fall

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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 (you, one, robin red bres), 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:pg76586:7:6
# text = Wile eh duh tan onder one berry tree, one robin-red-bres, wuh bin er eat de berry, choke an fall der groun.
1	Wile	wile	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
3	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	tan	tan	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	onder	onder	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	_
11	robin	robin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	bres	bre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	wuh	wuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
21	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	choke	choke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wile** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tan** | infinitive | you *not said here* | one berry tree |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 3 | **bre** |  | one |  |  |  |  | wuh bin er *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | present | robin red bres and wuh bin er | de's berry |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient |
| 5 | **choke** | infinitive | robin red bres and wuh bin er *not said here* | a fall and der groun |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fall=Destination |

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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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