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title: De man wife bin a tun roun an der cook supper. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De man wife bin a tun roun an der cook supper. Who acts: man wife. 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 143

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De man wife bin a tun roun an der cook supper.

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**Who acts:** man wife · **What happens:** bin · **To what, where:** tun roun

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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 (man wife), 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:pg76586:4:143
# text = De man wife bin a tun roun an der cook supper.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	advmod	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | man wife | a tun roun and cook supper |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent roun=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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