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title: “Arter me bin in Hebben good wile, de blessed Master, him say: ‘Come… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Arter me bin in Hebben good wile, de blessed Master, him say: ‘Come, Jupter, I gwine show you way de bad people go.’ Who acts: Arter, de, bad people. 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 t
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 140

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“Arter me bin in Hebben good wile, de blessed Master, him say: ‘Come, Jupter, I gwine show you way de bad people go.’

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**Who acts:** Arter, de, bad people · **What happens:** bin, bless, say, come, show, go · **To what, where:** Master, Jupter, way, you · **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 (Arter, de, bad people), 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:pg76586:14:140
# text = “Arter me bin in Hebben good wile, de blessed Master, him say: ‘Come, Jupter, I gwine show you way de bad people go.’
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Arter	Arter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Hebben	Hebben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	wile	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	blessed	bless	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Jupter	Jupter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	de	de	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	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 | Arter  me |  |  |  | while |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bless** *in a quote* | participle | de *not said here* | Master |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Arter |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Jupter |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **show** *in a quote* | present | Arter | way | you |  |  | gwine *nsubj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic |
| 6 | **go** *in a quote* | present | bad people | way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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