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title: Ef you bin do es me bin tell you, an keep you big mout shet, you bin… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ef you bin do es me bin tell you, an keep you big mout shet, you bin hab um all two now.” Who acts: you, Ef. 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 84

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Ef you bin do es me bin tell you, an keep you big mout shet, you bin hab um all two now.”

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**Who acts:** you, Ef · **What happens:** bin, do, tell, keep · **To what, where:** Ef, es, you, hab um · **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 (you, Ef), 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:pg76586:12:84
# text = Ef you bin do es me bin tell you, an keep you big mout shet, you bin hab um all two now.”
1	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
7	bin	bin	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	mout	mout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	shet	shet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | you | Ef *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ef=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | Ef | es  me |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e=Eventuality |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Ef *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **keep** | present |  | you |  |  |  | big mout shet *xcomp* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 5 | **bin** | present | you | hab um |  |  |  | two *obl* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent um=Theme |

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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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