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title: De Gal bin rich an berry pooty. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Gal bin rich an berry pooty. Who acts: De. 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 45

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De Gal bin rich an berry pooty.

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**Who acts:** De · **What happens:** bin · **To what, where:** berry pooty

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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 (De), 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:pg76586:3:45
# text = De Gal bin rich an berry pooty.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pooty	pooty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	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 | De | a berry pooty |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pooty=Theme |

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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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