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title: Eh bin bruise up so bad eh haffer tek eh bed fuh mona two week, an a… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh bin bruise up so bad eh haffer tek eh bed fuh mona two week, an all dat time Buh Wolf fambly mose dead long hongry. Who acts: Eh bin. 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 135

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Eh bin bruise up so bad eh haffer tek eh bed fuh mona two week, an all dat time Buh Wolf fambly mose dead long hongry.

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**Who acts:** Eh bin · **What happens:** bruise up, mose · **To what, where:** bad eh eh bed, dead

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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 (Eh 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:pg76586:11:135
# text = Eh bin bruise up so bad eh haffer tek eh bed fuh mona two week, an all dat time Buh Wolf fambly mose dead long hongry.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bruise	bruise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
7	eh	eh	X	FW	_	11	compound	_	_
8	haffer	haffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
13	mona	mona	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	_
15	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
19	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
22	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	mose	mose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	_
26	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hongry	hongry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bruise up** | present | Eh bin | bad eh eh bed |  |  | week |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **mose** | present | Eh bin *not said here* | dead |  |  | time | fambly *property* | 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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