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title: Bimeby eh yeddy de Dog call one goose, an tell um fuh watch de holle… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby eh yeddy de Dog call one goose, an tell um fuh watch de holler tel him kin git some fire an moss fuh smoke Buh Rabbit outer de tree. Who acts: Bimeby, um fuh, de holler tel. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 57

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Bimeby eh yeddy de Dog call one goose, an tell um fuh watch de holler tel him kin git some fire an moss fuh smoke Buh Rabbit outer de tree.

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**Who acts:** Bimeby, um fuh, de holler tel · **What happens:** call, tell, watch, kin · **To what, where:** one goose, git · **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 (Bimeby, um fuh, de holler tel), 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:pg76586:10:57
# text = Bimeby eh yeddy de Dog call one goose, an tell um fuh watch de holler tel him kin git some fire an moss fuh smoke Buh Rabbit outer de tree.
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
3	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	_	6	nsubj	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
16	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	kin	kin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
20	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
27	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
28	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	compound	_	_
31	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | infinitive | Bimeby |  | one goose |  |  | Dog *nsubj* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent goose=Recipient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Bimeby *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **watch** | present | um fuh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **kin** | past | de holler tel | git |  |  |  | DOG *nsubj*; some fire *obj*; a moss fuh smoke *obj* | tree rules |

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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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