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title: All dis time de horse bin er cut sich caper Buh Wolf couldnt manage… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: All dis time de horse bin er cut sich caper Buh Wolf couldnt manage um, an so eh drap de bridle an heng on ter eh mange fuh keep from fall off. Who acts: caper Wolf couldnt, eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, wit
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 102

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All dis time de horse bin er cut sich caper Buh Wolf couldnt manage um, an so eh drap de bridle an heng on ter eh mange fuh keep from fall off.

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**Who acts:** caper Wolf couldnt, eh · **What happens:** cut, manage, drap, bridle, keep off · **To what, where:** um, heng, eh mange fuh, fall

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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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (caper Wolf couldnt, eh), 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:pg76586:10:102
# text = All dis time de horse bin er cut sich caper Buh Wolf couldnt manage um, an so eh drap de bridle an heng on ter eh mange fuh keep from fall off.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	conj	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	er	er	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	sich	sich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	caper	caper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	manage	manage	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
15	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	drap	drap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	dep	_	_
22	bridle	bridle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	heng	heng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	mange	mange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	off	off	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | past |  |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **manage** | present | caper Wolf couldnt | um |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme |
| 3 | **drap** | present | eh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bridle** | infinitive | eh *not said here* | a heng |  | eh mange fuh  ter |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent heng=Destination |
| 5 | **keep off** | present | eh *not said here* |  |  | fall |  | off *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from fall=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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