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title: De pahler bin full, but dem yent bin know who dat bin a mek de music. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De pahler bin full, but dem yent bin know who dat bin a mek de music. Who acts: dem. 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 153

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De pahler bin full, but dem yent bin know who dat bin a mek de music.

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**Who acts:** dem · **What happens:** know, dat · **To what, where:** bin, De pahler bin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (dem), 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:pg76586:3:153
# text = De pahler bin full, but dem yent bin know who dat bin a mek de music.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	pahler	pahler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dat	dat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | dem |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **dat** | past |  | bin |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; a mek music *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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