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title: Bimeby Buh Deer, him come long duh eat grass, an befo eh fine out, d… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby Buh Deer, him come long duh eat grass, an befo eh fine out, de groun gie way onder eh foot, an eh drap bottom er de hole. Who acts: EH, long duh, grass. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, with its dependency t
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 33

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Bimeby Buh Deer, him come long duh eat grass, an befo eh fine out, de groun gie way onder eh foot, an eh drap bottom er de hole.

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**Who acts:** EH, long duh, grass · **What happens:** come, eat, gie, drap · **To what, where:** way eh foot, bottom, Bimeby

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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, long duh, grass), 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:pg76586:11:33
# text = Bimeby Buh Deer, him come long duh eat grass, an befo eh fine out, de groun gie way onder eh foot, an eh drap bottom er de hole.
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	duh	duh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	conj	_	_
19	groun	groun	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	flat	_	_
20	gie	gie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
22	onder	onder	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	drap	drap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
29	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	er	er	X	FW	_	32	compound	_	_
31	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	flat:foreign	_	_
32	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | EH |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | present | long duh |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gie** | present | grass | way eh foot and a eh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **drap** | infinitive | grass *not said here* | bottom |  |  |  | er hole *obj* | 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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