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title: Wen de Gal notus how smate Buh Rabbit bin, an how eh mek good eh big… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen de Gal notus how smate Buh Rabbit bin, an how eh mek good eh big wud, eh gen um eh han, an, leetle while arter, dem bin git marry. Who acts: bin git. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 112

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Wen de Gal notus how smate Buh Rabbit bin, an how eh mek good eh big wud, eh gen um eh han, an, leetle while arter, dem bin git marry.

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**Who acts:** bin git · **What happens:** marry · **To what, where:** um han

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bin git), 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:pg76586:3:112
# text = Wen de Gal notus how smate Buh Rabbit bin, an how eh mek good eh big wud, eh gen um eh han, an, leetle while arter, dem bin git marry.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	notus	notus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	smate	smate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	wud	wud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
20	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
21	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
24	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	leetle	leetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	arter	arter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | infinitive | bin git | um han  Wen  notus  big wud and a eh mek and a leetle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent han=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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