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title: Ebry body bin faid Alligatur, an nobody could outrun Buh Deer. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ebry body bin faid Alligatur, an nobody could outrun Buh Deer. Who acts: Ebry body bin, nobody. 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 24

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Ebry body bin faid Alligatur, an nobody could outrun Buh Deer.

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**Who acts:** Ebry body bin, nobody · **What happens:** fai, outrun · **To what, where:** Alligatur, Buh Deer

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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 (Ebry body bin, nobody), 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:pg76586:11:24
# text = Ebry body bin faid Alligatur, an nobody could outrun Buh Deer.
1	Ebry	Ebry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	faid	fai	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	outrun	outrun	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fai** | past | Ebry body bin | Alligatur |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **outrun** | could | nobody | Buh Deer |  |  |  |  | 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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