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title: De Ole Man yent bin know de diffunce tween Buh Rabbit an Buh Fox. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Ole Man yent bin know de diffunce tween Buh Rabbit an Buh Fox. Who acts: Ole Man. 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 every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 28

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De Ole Man yent bin know de diffunce tween Buh Rabbit an Buh Fox.

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**Who acts:** Ole Man · **What happens:** know · **To what, where:** de diffunce

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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 (Ole Man), 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:pg76586:10:28
# text = De Ole Man yent bin know de diffunce tween Buh Rabbit an Buh Fox.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
8	diffunce	diffunce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	tween	tween	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Ole Man | de diffunce |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer diffunce=Stimulus |

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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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