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title: Stidder eh bin one chicken, eh tun out fuh bin er sharp-pinted stump… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Stidder eh bin one chicken, eh tun out fuh bin er sharp-pinted stump; an befo Buh Fowl-hawk fine out de diffunce, an kin check eh speed, eh hit eh bres gin de stump an kill ehself. Who acts: Stidder, befo hawk, eh bres. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Ch
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 33

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Stidder eh bin one chicken, eh tun out fuh bin er sharp-pinted stump; an befo Buh Fowl-hawk fine out de diffunce, an kin check eh speed, eh hit eh bres gin de stump an kill ehself.

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**Who acts:** Stidder, befo hawk, eh bres · **What happens:** bin, tun out, pint, diffunce, hit, gin · **To what, where:** one chicken, fuh bin, kill

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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 (Stidder, befo hawk, eh bres), 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:pg76586:3:33
# text = Stidder eh bin one chicken, eh tun out fuh bin er sharp-pinted stump; an befo Buh Fowl-hawk fine out de diffunce, an kin check eh speed, eh hit eh bres gin de stump an kill ehself.
1	Stidder	Stidder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	tun	tun	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
13	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	pinted	pint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
20	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
21	Fowl	Fowl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	compound	_	_
27	diffunce	diffunce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	kin	kin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
32	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	36	discourse	_	_
36	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
37	eh	eh	X	GW	_	38	compound	_	_
38	bres	bre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	gin	gin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	ccomp	_	_
40	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	41	dep	_	_
41	stump	stump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | Stidder | one chicken |  |  |  | eh *nsubj* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme |
| 2 | **tun out** | infinitive | Stidder *not said here* | fuh bin |  |  |  | sharp pinted stump *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **diffunce** |  | befo hawk |  |  |  |  | a kin check and eh speed *appos* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hit** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **gin** | present | eh bres |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **stump** | infinitive | eh bres *not said here* | a kill |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus kill=Experiencer |

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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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