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title: Wile dis bin a guine on, de people bin a eat at bofe de dinner. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wile dis bin a guine on, de people bin a eat at bofe de dinner. Who acts: Wile dis, people. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 127

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Wile dis bin a guine on, de people bin a eat at bofe de dinner.

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**Who acts:** Wile dis, people · **What happens:** bin on, bin · **To what, where:** guine, eat, bofe de dinner

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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 (Wile dis, people), 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:pg76586:3:127
# text = Wile dis bin a guine on, de people bin a eat at bofe de dinner.
1	Wile	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	de	de	ADP	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	eat	eat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	bofe	bofe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin on** | present | Wile dis | a guine |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent guine=Theme |
| 2 | **bin** | present | people | a eat |  | bofe de dinner |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eat=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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