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title: Arter him an eh husbun done eat, eh husbun say: “Me bin hab big luck… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Arter him an eh husbun done eat, eh husbun say: “Me bin hab big luck ter-day: looker dis money.” Who acts: Arter. 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 144

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Arter him an eh husbun done eat, eh husbun say: “Me bin hab big luck ter-day: looker dis money.”

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**Who acts:** Arter · **What happens:** do, eat, say, bin · **To what, where:** eh husbun, hab · **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 (Arter), 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:pg76586:4:144
# text = Arter him an eh husbun done eat, eh husbun say: “Me bin hab big luck ter-day: looker dis money.”
1	Arter	Arter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	flat	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	husbun	husbun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
10	husbun	husbun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
18	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
19	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	looker	looker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  | a eh husbun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Arter |  |  |  |  | husbun *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | Arter | hab |  |  | day |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hab=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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