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title: Wen night come on dem drap anurrur nail, middle night anurrer, an es… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen night come on dem drap anurrur nail, middle night anurrer, an es de sun duh rise dem drap de las one. Who acts: Wen night, es, dem, de. 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 pragmatic
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 69

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Wen night come on dem drap anurrur nail, middle night anurrer, an es de sun duh rise dem drap de las one.

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**Who acts:** Wen night, es, dem, de · **What happens:** come, drap, rise, la · **To what, where:** anurrur nail, dem, one

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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 night, es, dem, de), 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:pg76586:8:69
# text = Wen night come on dem drap anurrur nail, middle night anurrer, an es de sun duh rise dem drap de las one.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	drap	drap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	anurrur	anurrur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	anurrer	anurrer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
17	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
20	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	drap	drap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	nsubj	_	_
23	las	la	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Wen night |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drap** | present | Wen night *not said here* | anurrur nail and middle night anurrer |  | dem |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rise** | infinitive | a es |  |  |  |  | de sun *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **drap** | present | dem |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **la** | present | de | one |  |  |  |  | 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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