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title: One ebenin Buh Owl bin a sing an play oncommon well fuh de bud at Bu… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One ebenin Buh Owl bin a sing an play oncommon well fuh de bud at Buh Rooster house fuh dance. Who acts: One ebenin. 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 152

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One ebenin Buh Owl bin a sing an play oncommon well fuh de bud at Buh Rooster house fuh dance.

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**Who acts:** One ebenin · **What happens:** bin · **To what, where:** sing

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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 (One ebenin), 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:pg76586:3:152
# text = One ebenin Buh Owl bin a sing an play oncommon well fuh de bud at Buh Rooster house fuh dance.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	ebenin	ebenin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	Owl	Owl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	oncommon	oncommon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	compound	_	_
14	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | One ebenin | a sing |  |  |  | de bud at house fuh dance  Buh *obl*; a play *obj* | 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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