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title: Eh yent nebber bin plant no tetter. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh yent nebber bin plant no tetter. Who acts: yent nebber 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 215

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Eh yent nebber bin plant no tetter.

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**Who acts:** yent nebber bin · **What happens:** plant · **To what, where:** tetter

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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 (yent nebber 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:pg76586:2:215
# text = Eh yent nebber bin plant no tetter.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	plant	plant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	tetter	tetter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plant** | present | yent nebber bin | no tetter |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tetter=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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