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title: Eh yent bin berry long wen yuh come Buh Alligatuh duh tote er keen b… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh yent bin berry long wen yuh come Buh Alligatuh duh tote er keen black lash. Who acts: yent bin, Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, 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 11, sentence 119

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Eh yent bin berry long wen yuh come Buh Alligatuh duh tote er keen black lash.

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**Who acts:** yent bin, Buh · **What happens:** berry, come, tote · **To what, where:** long wen, keen black lash

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yent bin, Buh), 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:pg76586:11:119
# text = Eh yent bin berry long wen yuh come Buh Alligatuh duh tote er keen black lash.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	berry	berry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	yuh	yuh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	Alligatuh	Alligatuh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	tote	tote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
13	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	lash	lash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **berry** | present | yent bin | long wen |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wen=Location |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | yent bin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tote** | infinitive | Buh | keen black lash |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lash=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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