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title: Wile eh bin a moan an suffer, Buh Mash-hen pass by. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wile eh bin a moan an suffer, Buh Mash-hen pass by. Who acts: you. 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 8

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Wile eh bin a moan an suffer, Buh Mash-hen pass by.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wile, bin · **To what, where:** Buh, moan

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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 (you), 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:pg76586:3:8
# text = Wile eh bin a moan an suffer, Buh Mash-hen pass by.
1	Wile	wile	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
3	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moan	moan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	suffer	suffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	Mash	Mash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wile** | imperative | you *not said here* | Buh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bin** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a moan |  |  |  | a suffer *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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