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title: Wen dem dribe up ter de step, de Debble, wuh bin de husbun, han eh B… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen dem dribe up ter de step, de Debble, wuh bin de husbun, han eh Bride een de pahler, an set um een one rockin-chair, an tell um de whole house blanks ter um, an eh mus mek isself saterfy an joy isself. Who acts: Wen dem, Debble. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the verna
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 35

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Wen dem dribe up ter de step, de Debble, wuh bin de husbun, han eh Bride een de pahler, an set um een one rockin-chair, an tell um de whole house blanks ter um, an eh mus mek isself saterfy an joy isself.

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**Who acts:** Wen dem, Debble · **What happens:** dribe up, blank, saterfy · **To what, where:** ter, joy

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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 dem, Debble), 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:pg76586:8:35
# text = Wen dem dribe up ter de step, de Debble, wuh bin de husbun, han eh Bride een de pahler, an set um een one rockin-chair, an tell um de whole house blanks ter um, an eh mus mek isself saterfy an joy isself.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dribe	dribe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	de	de	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Debble	Debble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
15	husbun	husbun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
18	eh	eh	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Bride	Bride	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:unmarked	_	_
20	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	compound	_	_
22	pahler	pahler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
27	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	flat	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
29	rockin	rockin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
36	de	de	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	blanks	blank	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
40	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	mus	mus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
46	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	_
47	isself	isself	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	46	flat	_	_
48	saterfy	saterfy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	_
49	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	isself	isself	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	50	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dribe up** | infinitive | Wen dem | ter |  |  |  | de step *obl:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 2 | **blank** | present | Debble |  |  |  |  | ter um and a eh mus | tree rules |
| 3 | **saterfy** | infinitive | Debble *not said here* | a joy |  |  |  |  | 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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