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title: Wen eh git ter eh house eh sen one er him gal to Buh Wolf house fuh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh git ter eh house eh sen one er him gal to Buh Wolf house fuh tell um him hab some nice fish, an ter eenwite Buh Wolf an him fambly fuh tek brukwus long um nex mornin. Who acts: Wen, tek brukwus. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jone
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 89

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Wen eh git ter eh house eh sen one er him gal to Buh Wolf house fuh tell um him hab some nice fish, an ter eenwite Buh Wolf an him fambly fuh tek brukwus long um nex mornin.

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**Who acts:** Wen, tek brukwus · **What happens:** eh, tell, hab, mornin · **To what, where:** git, um, nice fish · **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 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, tek brukwus), 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:pg76586:7:89
# text = Wen eh git ter eh house eh sen one er him gal to Buh Wolf house fuh tell um him hab some nice fish, an ter eenwite Buh Wolf an him fambly fuh tek brukwus long um nex mornin.
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	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	eh	eh	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
8	sen	sen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	er	er	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	gal	gal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
19	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hab	hab	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	ter	ter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	eenwite	eenwite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
29	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
30	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	conj	_	_
33	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
34	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	40	discourse	_	_
35	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	brukwus	brukwu	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
37	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	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** | past | Wen | git |  |  |  | ter house sen; to Wolf house; one gal *obl:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Wen *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent um=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hab** | present | wen | some nice fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mornin** |  | tek brukwus |  |  |  |  | fambly *property* | tree rules |

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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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