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title: Wen dinner done ober, an de gentlemans duh set een de piazza duh tal… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen dinner done ober, an de gentlemans duh set een de piazza duh talk, de boy come back wid er roccoon. Who acts: Wen dinner, de boy. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 108

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Wen dinner done ober, an de gentlemans duh set een de piazza duh talk, de boy come back wid er roccoon.

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**Who acts:** Wen dinner, de boy · **What happens:** do, set, come back · **To what, where:** ober, een, wid er roccoon

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen dinner, de boy), 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:pg76586:8:108
# text = Wen dinner done ober, an de gentlemans duh set een de piazza duh talk, de boy come back wid er roccoon.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	ober	ober	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
8	gentlemans	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
12	de	de	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	piazza	piazza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	compound	_	_
18	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	roccoon	roccoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle | Wen dinner *not said here* | ober |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ober=Eventuality |
| 2 | **set** | past | Wen dinner | een |  |  |  | a de gentlemans *nsubj* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient een=Result |
| 3 | **come back** | present | de boy | wid er roccoon |  |  |  | de piazza duh talk | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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