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title: Bimeby yuh come some er dem, wuh bin eat dinner wid Cooter Bay, duh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby yuh come some er dem, wuh bin eat dinner wid Cooter Bay, duh mek dem way home. Who acts: Bimeby, wuh bin. 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 128

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Bimeby yuh come some er dem, wuh bin eat dinner wid Cooter Bay, duh mek dem way home.

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**Who acts:** Bimeby, wuh bin · **What happens:** come, eat · **To what, where:** er dem, 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 (Bimeby, wuh 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:pg76586:3:128
# text = Bimeby yuh come some er dem, wuh bin eat dinner wid Cooter Bay, duh mek dem way home.
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	yuh	yuh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
5	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	wuh	wuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Cooter	Cooter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
17	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | Bimeby | some er dem |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dem=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | present | wuh bin | dinner |  |  |  | wid Cooter Bay *obj*; mek dem way *parataxis* | tree rules |

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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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