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title: We bin ketch two fat possum, an dest befo we mek up we mine fuh go b… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: We bin ketch two fat possum, an dest befo we mek up we mine fuh go back home we buil one fire fuh wam weself. Who acts: We. 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 clau
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 33

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We bin ketch two fat possum, an dest befo we mek up we mine fuh go back home we buil one fire fuh wam weself.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** bin, mek up, go back, buil · **To what, where:** ketch, dest befo, fire fuh wam

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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 (We), 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:pg76586:14:33
# text = We bin ketch two fat possum, an dest befo we mek up we mine fuh go back home we buil one fire fuh wam weself.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	possum	possum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	dest	d	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	mek	mek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	conj	_	_
16	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	home	home	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	buil	buil	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	wam	wam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	weself	weself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | We | ketch |  |  |  | two fat possum *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mek up** | present | we | a dest befo  mine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go back** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **buil** | present | we | fire fuh wam  weself |  |  |  | home *property* | 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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