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title: One ebenin, dis befo de po man knock off wuk, dis snake crawl up ter… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One ebenin, dis befo de po man knock off wuk, dis snake crawl up ter de log way de man bin er chop, an eh say: “Budder, how you der mek out?” Who acts: One ebenin, wuk, ter, you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4, wit
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 121

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One ebenin, dis befo de po man knock off wuk, dis snake crawl up ter de log way de man bin er chop, an eh say: “Budder, how you der mek out?”

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**Who acts:** One ebenin, wuk, ter, you · **What happens:** knock off, crawl up, log, say, mek out · **To what, where:** Budder, way · **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 (One ebenin, wuk, ter, 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:pg76586:4:121
# text = One ebenin, dis befo de po man knock off wuk, dis snake crawl up ter de log way de man bin er chop, an eh say: “Budder, how you der mek out?”
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	ebenin	ebenin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	po	po	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	crawl	crawl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	nsubj	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	_
19	log	log	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	chop	chop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Budder	budder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	xcomp	_	_
37	mek	mek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl:relcl	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock off** | infinitive | One ebenin | Budder |  |  |  | dis befo *nsubj*; po man *nsubj* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **crawl up** | present | wuk |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **log** | infinitive | ter | way |  |  |  | de man bin *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: ask* | infinitive | ter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **mek out** *in a quote* | infinitive | you |  |  |  |  |  | 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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