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title: Eh no bin know dat wen de order gie fuh stroy all de ole people een… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh no bin know dat wen de order gie fuh stroy all de ole people een de kingdom, de noung King hide eh farruh een one holler tree, an so eh mek eh scape from de soldier, an bin day fuh gen eh son sense. Who acts: bin, ole people, King, een. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in t
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 54

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Eh no bin know dat wen de order gie fuh stroy all de ole people een de kingdom, de noung King hide eh farruh een one holler tree, an so eh mek eh scape from de soldier, an bin day fuh gen eh son sense.

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**Who acts:** bin, ole people, King, een, gen · **What happens:** know, stroy, kingdom, hide, tree, sense · **To what, where:** een kingdom

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bin, ole people, King, een), 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:pg76586:12:54
# text = Eh no bin know dat wen de order gie fuh stroy all de ole people een de kingdom, de noung King hide eh farruh een one holler tree, an so eh mek eh scape from de soldier, an bin day fuh gen eh son sense.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
5	dat	dat	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	gie	gie	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	stroy	stroy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
14	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	amod	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	flat	_	_
18	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	conj	_	_
21	noung	noung	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
25	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	_
26	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nsubj	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
28	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
34	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
35	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	scape	scape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
44	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	48	discourse	_	_
45	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
46	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
47	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | no bin |  |  |  |  | dat wen de order | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stroy** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **kingdom** |  | all ole people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hide** | present | King | een kingdom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient |
| 5 | **tree** |  | een |  |  |  |  | a eh mek eh scape from de soldier *conj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **sense** |  | gen |  |  |  |  |  | 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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