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title: People wuh no bin born wid caul kin yeddy sperit, but dem cant shum. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: People wuh no bin born wid caul kin yeddy sperit, but dem cant shum. Who acts: bin. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 13, 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 13, sentence 111

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People wuh no bin born wid caul kin yeddy sperit, but dem cant shum.

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**Who acts:** bin · **What happens:** bear · **To what, where:** wid yeddy sperit, People

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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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bin), 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:pg76586:13:111
# text = People wuh no bin born wid caul kin yeddy sperit, but dem cant shum.
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	caul	caul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	sperit	sperit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	shum	shum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle | no bin *not said here* | wid yeddy sperit |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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