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title: Wen de ole man mek up eh mine eh couldnt fine out wuh day een de bar… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen de ole man mek up eh mine eh couldnt fine out wuh day een de barrel, eh stop, eh study, eh cratch eh head, an den eh mek answer: “Mossa, hoona done head de ole coon dis time.” Who acts: Wen ole man, Mossa. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 115

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Wen de ole man mek up eh mine eh couldnt fine out wuh day een de barrel, eh stop, eh study, eh cratch eh head, an den eh mek answer: “Mossa, hoona done head de ole coon dis time.”

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**Who acts:** Wen ole man, Mossa · **What happens:** mek up, stop, do · **To what, where:** mine, eh study, head · **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 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 ole man, Mossa), 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:pg76586:8:115
# text = Wen de ole man mek up eh mine eh couldnt fine out wuh day een de barrel, eh stop, eh study, eh cratch eh head, an den eh mek answer: “Mossa, hoona done head de ole coon dis time.”
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	mek	mek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
9	eh	eh	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
15	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	_
16	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
20	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
26	cratch	cratch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
33	mek	mek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	hoona	hoona	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
40	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
41	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
42	de	de	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
44	coon	coon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mek up** | infinitive | Wen ole man | mine |  |  |  | couldnt *obl*; fine day de barrel *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stop** | infinitive | Wen ole man *not said here* | eh study and eh head and a den eh and mek answer |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality study=Eventuality |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | Mossa | head |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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