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title: “All dis time me bin er set wid me face tun way from de Lord an eh t… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: “All dis time me bin er set wid me face tun way from de Lord an eh trone, cause eh so great an bright me couldnt look pon topper um. Who acts: eh, face. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 133

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“All dis time me bin er set wid me face tun way from de Lord an eh trone, cause eh so great an bright me couldnt look pon topper um.

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**Who acts:** eh, face · **What happens:** bin, wi, tun, cause, look · **To what, where:** dis time, eh, way, topper 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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eh, face), 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:pg76586:14:133
# text = “All dis time me bin er set wid me face tun way from de Lord an eh trone, cause eh so great an bright me couldnt look pon topper um.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	er	er	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	tun	tun	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	trone	trone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
30	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | a eh *= eh* | all dis time *not said here* |  |  |  | set *property* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent time=Theme |
| 2 | **wi** *in a quote* | past |  | a eh *= eh* |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tun** *in a quote* | present | face | way |  |  |  | from de Lord | tree rules |
| 4 | **cause** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | eh |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition eh=Patient |
| 5 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | topper um |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme um=Attribute |

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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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