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title: Dem bin a talk togerrur one day, an Buh Elephant, him bet Buh Rooste… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem bin a talk togerrur one day, an Buh Elephant, him bet Buh Rooster say him kin eat longer ner him. Who acts: Dem, Buh, kin. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 106

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Dem bin a talk togerrur one day, an Buh Elephant, him bet Buh Rooster say him kin eat longer ner him.

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**Who acts:** Dem, Buh, kin · **What happens:** bin, bet, say, eat · **To what, where:** talk togerrur, dem, ner · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dem, Buh, kin), 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:pg76586:4:106
# text = Dem bin a talk togerrur one day, an Buh Elephant, him bet Buh Rooster say him kin eat longer ner him.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	togerrur	togerrur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	bet	bet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	ner	ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | Dem | a talk togerrur  one day |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent togerrur=Theme |
| 2 | **bet** | past | dem |  |  |  |  |  | vn risk-94 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Buh | dem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | present | kin | ner  dem |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ner=Patient |

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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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