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title: How long me bin ter sleep me dunno, but all ob er sutten pear like e… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: How long me bin ter sleep me dunno, but all ob er sutten pear like ebry shingle an boad hab er crack, an de light stream tru, an de room bin bright es day. Who acts: me, ob, de room. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 100

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How long me bin ter sleep me dunno, but all ob er sutten pear like ebry shingle an boad hab er crack, an de light stream tru, an de room bin bright es day.

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**Who acts:** me, ob, de room · **What happens:** bin, sleep, shingle · **To what, where:** me, boad hab, bright es

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, ob, de room), 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:pg76586:14:100
# text = How long me bin ter sleep me dunno, but all ob er sutten pear like ebry shingle an boad hab er crack, an de light stream tru, an de room bin bright es day.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ter	ter	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	dunno	dunno	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	ob	ob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	sutten	sutten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pear	pear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ebry	ebry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	shingle	shingle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	boad	boad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	er	er	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
29	tru	tru	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
35	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	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 | me |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sleep** | infinitive | me *not said here* | me |  |  |  | dunno *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **shingle** | present | all ob | a boad hab and a de light stream |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent hab=Destination |
| 4 | **bin** | present | a de room | bright es |  |  | day |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent e=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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