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title: Him bin tink say him got Buh Rabbit safe, an so eh keep on play eh f… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Him bin tink say him got Buh Rabbit safe, an so eh keep on play eh fiddle an sing: “Tenk God, rain done sen meat een me house. Who acts: Him bin, 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 t
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 84

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Him bin tink say him got Buh Rabbit safe, an so eh keep on play eh fiddle an sing: “Tenk God, rain done sen meat een me house.

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**Who acts:** Him bin, bin · **What happens:** say, get, keep, fiddle, do · **To what, where:** Buh Rabbit, play eh, sing, sen meat · **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 bin, 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:pg76586:11:84
# text = Him bin tink say him got Buh Rabbit safe, an so eh keep on play eh fiddle an sing: “Tenk God, rain done sen meat een me house.
1	Him	him	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	tink	tink	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	fiddle	fiddle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Tenk	Tenk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
28	sen	sen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:unmarked	_	_
32	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Him bin |  |  |  |  | Tenk God and rain *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get** | past | bin | Buh Rabbit |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rabbit=Stimulus |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | Him bin *not said here* |  |  | play eh |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fiddle** | infinitive | Him bin *not said here* | a sing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | participle |  | sen meat |  |  |  | een house *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Eventuality |

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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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