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title: Wile dis bin er gwine on, Buh Goat an eh wife busy duh grabble, grab… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wile dis bin er gwine on, Buh Goat an eh wife busy duh grabble, grabble, grabble onder de sill er de shedroom tel dem mek hole big nough fuh dem fuh crawl out, an den dem slip out an gone. Who acts: eh wife, er, mek, big fuh dem. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacu
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 76

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Wile dis bin er gwine on, Buh Goat an eh wife busy duh grabble, grabble, grabble onder de sill er de shedroom tel dem mek hole big nough fuh dem fuh crawl out, an den dem slip out an gone.

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**Who acts:** eh wife, er, mek, big fuh dem · **What happens:** grabble, dem, crawl out, slip out · **To what, where:** de sill, tel dem, den dem, bin er gwine

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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 (eh wife, er, mek, big fuh dem), 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:pg76586:12:76
# text = Wile dis bin er gwine on, Buh Goat an eh wife busy duh grabble, grabble, grabble onder de sill er de shedroom tel dem mek hole big nough fuh dem fuh crawl out, an den dem slip out an gone.
1	Wile	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	er	er	X	FW	_	5	compound	_	_
5	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	grabble	grabble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	grabble	grabble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	grabble	grabble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
20	onder	onder	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	compound	_	_
22	sill	sill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	nsubj	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	flat:foreign	_	_
25	shedroom	shedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
29	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	nough	nough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	acl:relcl	_	_
34	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	35	discourse	_	_
35	crawl	crawl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
41	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
42	out	out	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	gone	gone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grabble** | infinitive | a eh wife |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grabble** | infinitive | a eh wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grabble** | infinitive | a eh wife *not said here* | de sill |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dem** |  | er | de sill *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dem** |  | mek | tel dem *not said here* |  |  |  | hole *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **crawl out** | infinitive | big fuh dem *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **slip out** | present | big fuh dem *not said here* | a den dem |  |  |  | a gone *obj* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent gone=Patient |

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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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