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title: Him fren couldnt see how dat happne, an dem yent bin want fuh bleeve… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Him fren couldnt see how dat happne, an dem yent bin want fuh bleeve de tale. Who acts: Him fren, dat happne. 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 49

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Him fren couldnt see how dat happne, an dem yent bin want fuh bleeve de tale.

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**Who acts:** Him fren, dat happne · **What happens:** see, want · **To what, where:** bleeve · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Him fren, dat happne), 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:pg76586:11:49
# text = Him fren couldnt see how dat happne, an dem yent bin want fuh bleeve de tale.
1	Him	him	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fren	fren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	happne	happne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
15	bleeve	bleeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat:foreign	_	_
17	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Him fren |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **want** | present | dat happne and a dem | bleeve and tale |  |  |  | yent bin *nsubj* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bleeve=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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