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title: Wen eh tun een de abnue wuh lead ter eh wife farruh house, eh see eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh tun een de abnue wuh lead ter eh wife farruh house, eh see eh wife an all eh fambly day een de piazza duh watch de road. Who acts: Wen. 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 pragma
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 79

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Wen eh tun een de abnue wuh lead ter eh wife farruh house, eh see eh wife an all eh fambly day een de piazza duh watch de road.

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**Who acts:** Wen · **What happens:** lead, see, watch · **To what, where:** ter, eh wife, de road

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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), 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:pg76586:8:79
# text = Wen eh tun een de abnue wuh lead ter eh wife farruh house, eh see eh wife an all eh fambly day een de piazza duh watch de road.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	PROPN	ADD	_	1	list	_	_
3	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
6	abnue	abnue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
7	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	lead	lead	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	farruh	farruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	fambly	fambly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	acl	_	_
24	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	_
25	de	de	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	piazza	piazza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
27	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
28	watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
29	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	compound	_	_
30	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | infinitive | Wen  eh | ter and eh farruh house |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ter=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive |  | eh wife  a eh fambly day |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus |
| 3 | **watch** | infinitive |  | de road |  |  |  | de piazza | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=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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