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title: “Same luk wen dem bin libe, ceptin dem look lucker shadder, an dem w… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Same luk wen dem bin libe, ceptin dem look lucker shadder, an dem walk backwuds, an dem face tun backwud, an de heel teh eh foot day way eh toe orter be. Who acts: bin libe, dem. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14, w
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 2

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“Same luk wen dem bin libe, ceptin dem look lucker shadder, an dem walk backwuds, an dem face tun backwud, an de heel teh eh foot day way eh toe orter be.

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**Who acts:** bin libe, dem · **What happens:** look, walk · **To what, where:** lucker, backwuds

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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 (bin libe, dem), 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:pg76586:14:2
# text = “Same luk wen dem bin libe, ceptin dem look lucker shadder, an dem walk backwuds, an dem face tun backwud, an de heel teh eh foot day way eh toe orter be.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	luk	luk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	libe	libe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	ceptin	ceptin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	lucker	lucker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	shadder	shadd	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
18	backwuds	backwud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	backwud	backwud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	heel	heel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
29	teh	teh	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
34	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	toe	toe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	orter	orter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | bin libe and ceptin dem | lucker |  |  |  | shadd *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lucker=Attribute |
| 2 | **walk** *in a quote* | infinitive | a dem | backwuds and a tun backwud and a de heel |  |  |  | teh day way and eh toe orter | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme backwud=Trajectory |

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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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