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title: Wen eh bin er eat de bread, Buh Tiger come long an bague um fuh some. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh bin er eat de bread, Buh Tiger come long an bague um fuh some. Who acts: Wen, de bread, some. 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 25

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Wen eh bin er eat de bread, Buh Tiger come long an bague um fuh some.

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**Who acts:** Wen, de bread, some · **What happens:** eat, come, um

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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 (Wen, de bread, some), 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:pg76586:4:25
# text = Wen eh bin er eat de bread, Buh Tiger come long an bague um fuh some.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	PROPN	ADD	_	1	list	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	bague	bague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Wen  eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present | de bread |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **um** |  | some |  |  |  |  | long *property* | 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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