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title: Eh yent bin want fur bleeve eh own yeye wen eh see Buh Cooter dere d… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh yent bin want fur bleeve eh own yeye wen eh see Buh Cooter dere done git head er um agin. Who acts: yent bin, own wen eh, Buh Cooter dere. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 249

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Eh yent bin want fur bleeve eh own yeye wen eh see Buh Cooter dere done git head er um agin.

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**Who acts:** yent bin, own wen eh, Buh Cooter dere · **What happens:** want, see, do · **To what, where:** fur bleeve, Buh Cooter dere, git head

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yent bin, own wen eh, Buh Cooter dere), 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:pg76586:1:249
# text = Eh yent bin want fur bleeve eh own yeye wen eh see Buh Cooter dere done git head er um agin.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bleeve	bleeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
20	um	um	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	agin	agin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | yent bin | fur bleeve |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bleeve=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | own wen eh | Buh Cooter dere |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dere=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | participle | Buh Cooter dere *not said here* | git head |  |  |  | um agin *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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