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title: Me bin eat some too, an eh mek me feel berry bad. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me bin eat some too, an eh mek me feel berry bad. Who acts: Me bin, eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 2, 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 2, sentence 159

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Me bin eat some too, an eh mek me feel berry bad.

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**Who acts:** Me bin, eh · **What happens:** eat, mek, feel · **To what, where:** some, me, berry

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Me bin, eh), 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:pg76586:2:159
# text = Me bin eat some too, an eh mek me feel berry bad.
1	Me	me	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	mek	mek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Me bin | some |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
| 2 | **mek** | infinitive | a eh | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | infinitive | a eh *not said here* | berry |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=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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