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title: Eh yent bin gone no destant befo eh meet dem people duh comin back w… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh yent bin gone no destant befo eh meet dem people duh comin back wuh bin gone fuh eat dinner long John Bay. Who acts: yent bin, comin. 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 o
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 135

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Eh yent bin gone no destant befo eh meet dem people duh comin back wuh bin gone fuh eat dinner long John Bay.

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**Who acts:** yent bin, comin · **What happens:** go, meet, eat · **To what, where:** destant befo eh, dem people, 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 (yent bin, comin), 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:pg76586:3:135
# text = Eh yent bin gone no destant befo eh meet dem people duh comin back wuh bin gone fuh eat dinner long John Bay.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
6	destant	destant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
13	comin	comin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	wuh	wuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
18	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	_
22	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | participle | yent bin *not said here* | no destant befo eh |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eh=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | present | yent bin | dem people |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **go** | participle | comin |  |  |  |  | wuh bin *nsubj* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | present | comin *not said here* | dinner |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=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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