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title: Me bin question dem mo na once, but dem nebber will mek answer. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me bin question dem mo na once, but dem nebber will mek answer. Who acts: dem nebber. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 17

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Me bin question dem mo na once, but dem nebber will mek answer.

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**Who acts:** dem nebber · **What happens:** mek · **To what, where:** answer, Me bin question

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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 (dem nebber), 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:pg76586:14:17
# text = Me bin question dem mo na once, but dem nebber will mek answer.
1	Me	me	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	na	na	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	mek	mek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mek** | future | dem nebber | answer |  |  |  |  | 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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