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title: De Buckra man git bex case de Nigger bin er glec eh wuk, an eh say t… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Buckra man git bex case de Nigger bin er glec eh wuk, an eh say ter um: “Huccum you stop de wuk wuh me bin gen you fuh do? Who acts: eh, Huccum, you. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 9

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De Buckra man git bex case de Nigger bin er glec eh wuk, an eh say ter um: “Huccum you stop de wuk wuh me bin gen you fuh do?

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**Who acts:** eh, Huccum, you · **What happens:** say, stop, bin, do · **To what, where:** ter um, de wuk, gen, git bex case · **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 (eh, Huccum, you), 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:pg76586:11:9
# text = De Buckra man git bex case de Nigger bin er glec eh wuk, an eh say ter um: “Huccum you stop de wuk wuh me bin gen you fuh do?
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Buckra	Buckra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	bex	bex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	de	de	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Nigger	Nigger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	er	er	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	6	appos	_	_
11	glec	glec	X	FW	_	13	compound	_	_
12	eh	eh	X	FW	_	13	compound	_	_
13	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
18	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Huccum	Huccum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	compound	_	_
26	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
30	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	33	discourse	_	_
33	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | infinitive | a eh | ter um |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent um=Topic |
| 2 | **stop** *in a quote* | present | Huccum | de wuk |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector wuk=Eventuality |
| 3 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | a eh *= eh* | gen |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gen=Theme |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | you | gen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gen=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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