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title: Een er leely wile yuh come Buh Possum duh tote he fanner. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Een er leely wile yuh come Buh Possum duh tote he fanner. Who acts: Een. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 61

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Een er leely wile yuh come Buh Possum duh tote he fanner.

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**Who acts:** Een · **What happens:** come, fanner · **To what, where:** Buh Possum

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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 (Een), 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:pg76586:9:61
# text = Een er leely wile yuh come Buh Possum duh tote he fanner.
1	Een	Een	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	leely	leely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wile	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	yuh	yuh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
10	tote	tote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fanner	fanner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | Een | Buh Possum |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location possum=Theme |
| 2 | **fanner** |  | een |  |  |  |  |  | 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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