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title: Satan, him bin day wid eh pitchfork, an eh black head wid screech-ow… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Satan, him bin day wid eh pitchfork, an eh black head wid screech-owl yez, an eh red yeye, an eh claw-han, an eh forky tail. Who acts: Satan, eh black head. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 144

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Satan, him bin day wid eh pitchfork, an eh black head wid screech-owl yez, an eh red yeye, an eh claw-han, an eh forky tail.

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**Who acts:** Satan, eh black head · **What happens:** bin, owl · **To what, where:** wid eh pitchfork

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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 (Satan, eh black head), 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:pg76586:14:144
# text = Satan, him bin day wid eh pitchfork, an eh black head wid screech-owl yez, an eh red yeye, an eh claw-han, an eh forky tail.
1	Satan	Satan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pitchfork	pitchfork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	screech	screech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
18	yez	yez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	forky	forky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	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 | Satan  er | wid eh pitchfork and a wid screech owl and a eh red yeye and a eh claw han and a eh forky tail |  |  | day |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pitchfork=Theme |
| 2 | **owl** |  | eh black head |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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