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title: Him bin know say Buh Fox gwine ketch de debble wen de Ole Man come p… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Him bin know say Buh Fox gwine ketch de debble wen de Ole Man come pon topper um. Who acts: Him bin. 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 31

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Him bin know say Buh Fox gwine ketch de debble wen de Ole Man come pon topper um.

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**Who acts:** Him bin · **What happens:** say, come · **To what, where:** Fox gwine ketch, topper um · **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 (Him bin), 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:pg76586:10:31
# text = Him bin know say Buh Fox gwine ketch de debble wen de Ole Man come pon topper um.
1	Him	him	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
10	debble	debble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	de	de	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
16	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Him bin | Fox gwine ketch and debble wen de Ole Man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive |  | topper um |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location um=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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