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title: Me hair bin a rise on me head, an wen me come fuh fine out me bin ee… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me hair bin a rise on me head, an wen me come fuh fine out me bin een me own bed, an fowl bin a crow fuh day. Who acts: Me hair bin, fine, fowl. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 2

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Me hair bin a rise on me head, an wen me come fuh fine out me bin een me own bed, an fowl bin a crow fuh day.

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**Who acts:** Me hair bin, fine, fowl · **What happens:** come, bin · **To what, where:** own bed, crow

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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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Me hair bin, fine, fowl), 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:pg76586:15:2
# text = Me hair bin a rise on me head, an wen me come fuh fine out me bin een me own bed, an fowl bin a crow fuh day.
1	Me	me	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
19	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nmod:unmarked	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:unmarked	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Me hair bin and a wen  me |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bin** | present | fine out me | own bed  een  me |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bin** | infinitive | a fowl | a crow  fuh day |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crow=Theme |

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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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