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title: Wen eh fine eh wife mine done mek up, an no way fuh him fuh git out… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh fine eh wife mine done mek up, an no way fuh him fuh git out cept fuh fetch Buh Coon body ter eh wife, eh gone ter Buh Rabbit fuh vise um an fuh help um. Who acts: Wen, fine eh wife mine. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Open
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 62

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Wen eh fine eh wife mine done mek up, an no way fuh him fuh git out cept fuh fetch Buh Coon body ter eh wife, eh gone ter Buh Rabbit fuh vise um an fuh help um.

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**Who acts:** Wen, fine eh wife mine · **What happens:** eh out, do up · **To what, where:** fine eh wife mine, mek

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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 (Wen, fine eh wife mine), 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:pg76586:7:62
# text = Wen eh fine eh wife mine done mek up, an no way fuh him fuh git out cept fuh fetch Buh Coon body ter eh wife, eh gone ter Buh Rabbit fuh vise um an fuh help um.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
17	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
19	cept	cept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fetch	fetch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:desc	_	_
22	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
25	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	conj	_	_
26	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
31	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	vise	vise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	um	um	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eh out** | past | Wen | fine eh wife mine |  |  |  | a way  mek *obl*; git *parataxis*; Buh body *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do up** | participle | fine eh wife mine *not said here* | mek |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mek=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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