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title: “Las night, dis befo fus fowl crow, me bin er leddown een me bed. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Las night, dis befo fus fowl crow, me bin er leddown een me bed. Who acts: yeddy. 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 94

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“Las night, dis befo fus fowl crow, me bin er leddown een me bed.

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**Who acts:** yeddy · **What happens:** bin · **To what, where:** leddown bed

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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 (yeddy), 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:pg76586:14:94
# text = “Las night, dis befo fus fowl crow, me bin er leddown een me bed.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Las	las	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	befo	befo	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
14	leddown	leddown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
15	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	flat	_	_
17	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | yeddy | leddown bed |  |  | night |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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