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title: Wen de tide duh come een de creek, de gate open an leh de fish een;… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen de tide duh come een de creek, de gate open an leh de fish een; an wen de tide duh gwine back der ribber, de gate shet an stop all de fish wuh day een de creek. Who acts: Wen tide, de tide, de gate shet. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 139

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Wen de tide duh come een de creek, de gate open an leh de fish een; an wen de tide duh gwine back der ribber, de gate shet an stop all de fish wuh day een de creek.

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**Who acts:** Wen tide, de tide, de gate shet · **What happens:** come, open, gwine, stop · **To what, where:** een creek, der ribber, de fish

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen tide, de tide, de gate shet), 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:pg76586:9:139
# text = Wen de tide duh come een de creek, de gate open an leh de fish een; an wen de tide duh gwine back der ribber, de gate shet an stop all de fish wuh day een de creek.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	amod	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat	_	_
8	creek	creek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	leh	leh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
24	gwine	gwine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	ribber	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	shet	shet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	all	all	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
37	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	41	discourse	_	_
38	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
39	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	flat	_	_
40	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	41	compound	_	_
41	creek	creek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | Wen tide | een creek and de gate |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location creek=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | a leh de fish *conj* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **gwine** | infinitive | a de tide | der ribber |  |  |  | day de creek *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stop** | present | de gate shet *not said here* | de fish |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fish=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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