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title: Him couldnt shum, cause George yent bin born wid caul. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Him couldnt shum, cause George yent bin born wid caul. Who acts: George yent bin. 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 38

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Him couldnt shum, cause George yent bin born wid caul.

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**Who acts:** George yent bin · **What happens:** bear · **To what, where:** wid caul, couldnt shum

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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 (George yent bin), 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:pg76586:14:38
# text = Him couldnt shum, cause George yent bin born wid caul.
1	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	shum	shum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	caul	caul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle | George yent bin *not said here* | wid caul |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caul=Patient |

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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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