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title: All dis time Buh Wolf wife bin er tell eh husbun: “You better mine w… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: All dis time Buh Wolf wife bin er tell eh husbun: “You better mine wuh you duh sing. Who acts: er, you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12, 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 12, sentence 70

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All dis time Buh Wolf wife bin er tell eh husbun: “You better mine wuh you duh sing.

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**Who acts:** er, you · **What happens:** tell, sing · **To what, where:** eh husbun · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (er, 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:pg76586:12:70
# text = All dis time Buh Wolf wife bin er tell eh husbun: “You better mine wuh you duh sing.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	er	er	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	husbun	husbun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
16	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
17	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | er | eh husbun |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husbun=Recipient |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | 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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