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title: Dere was er King wuh bin hab er pooty Darter, an heap er people bin… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dere was er King wuh bin hab er pooty Darter, an heap er people bin er cote um. Who acts: Dere, people. 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 20

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Dere was er King wuh bin hab er pooty Darter, an heap er people bin er cote um.

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**Who acts:** Dere, people · **What happens:** be, bin · **To what, where:** er cote um

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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 (Dere, people), 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:pg76586:11:20
# text = Dere was er King wuh bin hab er pooty Darter, an heap er people bin er cote um.
1	Dere	Dere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	er	er	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wuh	wuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	er	er	X	GW	_	3	conj	_	_
9	pooty	pooty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Darter	Darter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
18	cote	cote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Dere |  |  |  |  | er *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bin** | present | people | er cote um |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent 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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