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title: De gang all bin in de bush duh watch. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De gang all bin in de bush duh watch. Who acts: De, bin. 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 166

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De gang all bin in de bush duh watch.

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**Who acts:** De, bin · **What happens:** gang, bush, watch

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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 (De, 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:pg76586:2:166
# text = De gang all bin in de bush duh watch.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gang	gang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	bush	bush	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gang** | present | De |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bush** | present | all bin in de |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **watch** | infinitive | all bin in de *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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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