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title: One po Man bin er mek eh libbin long split shingle an cut timber in… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One po Man bin er mek eh libbin long split shingle an cut timber in de swamp. 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 clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 115

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One po Man bin er mek eh libbin long split shingle an cut timber in de swamp.

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**What happens:** split · **To what, where:** long split shingle

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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: 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:pg76586:4:115
# text = One po Man bin er mek eh libbin long split shingle an cut timber in de swamp.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	po	po	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	er	er	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	eh	eh	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	libbin	libbin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	shingle	shingle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	cut	cut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	timber	timber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	swamp	swamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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