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title: De Buckra man bin er set een eh piazza, an eh see wen de horse come… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Buckra man bin er set een eh piazza, an eh see wen de horse come up wid Buh Wolf der heng topper eh neck. Who acts: De bin er, wen. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 104

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De Buckra man bin er set een eh piazza, an eh see wen de horse come up wid Buh Wolf der heng topper eh neck.

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**Who acts:** De bin er, wen · **What happens:** set, see, come up · **To what, where:** een eh piazza, wid Buh Wolf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (De bin er, 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:pg76586:10:104
# text = De Buckra man bin er set een eh piazza, an eh see wen de horse come up wid Buh Wolf der heng topper eh neck.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	Buckra	Buckra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	piazza	piazza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	compound	_	_
16	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
18	up	up	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
23	heng	heng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
25	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | De bin er | een eh piazza |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient piazza=Result |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | De bin er *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come up** | present | wen and de horse | wid Buh Wolf |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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