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title: Wen de Debble fine out say eh wife yent come back from ride, eh bigg… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen de Debble fine out say eh wife yent come back from ride, eh biggin fuh spicion someting; an arter dinner eh git een eh carriage fuh hunt eh wife. Who acts: Wen, eh wife yent, biggin, dinner git. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 73

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Wen de Debble fine out say eh wife yent come back from ride, eh biggin fuh spicion someting; an arter dinner eh git een eh carriage fuh hunt eh wife.

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**Who acts:** Wen, eh wife yent, biggin, dinner git · **What happens:** fine out, come back, someting, hunt · **To what, where:** ride, wife

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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, eh wife yent, biggin, dinner git), 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:pg76586:8:73
# text = Wen de Debble fine out say eh wife yent come back from ride, eh biggin fuh spicion someting; an arter dinner eh git een eh carriage fuh hunt eh wife.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Debble	Debble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	fine	fine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
16	biggin	biggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	spicion	spicion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	someting	someting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	arter	arter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	eh	eh	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	_
25	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	appos	_	_
27	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
31	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fine out** | past | Wen |  |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come back** | present | eh wife yent |  |  | ride |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from ride=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **someting** |  | biggin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hunt** | present | dinner git | eh wife |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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