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title: Bes plan fuh er man fuh mek sho er eh bittle befo eh say tenky fuh um. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bes plan fuh er man fuh mek sho er eh bittle befo eh say tenky fuh um. Who acts: Bes, mek sho. 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 79

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Bes plan fuh er man fuh mek sho er eh bittle befo eh say tenky fuh um.

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**Who acts:** Bes, mek sho · **What happens:** plan, say · **To what, where:** man, tenky fuh 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 (Bes, mek sho), 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:pg76586:10:79
# text = Bes plan fuh er man fuh mek sho er eh bittle befo eh say tenky fuh um.
1	Bes	be	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	plan	plan	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
4	er	er	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
7	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	14	nsubj	_	_
9	er	er	ADV	GW	Typo=Yes	11	advmod	_	_
10	eh	eh	X	GW	_	9	goeswith	_	_
11	bittle	bittle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
12	befo	befo	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	tenky	tenky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan** | present | Bes | er's man |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | mek sho | tenky fuh um |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent um=Topic |

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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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