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title: Eh tink say de leely Gal bin a talk, an dat eh bin broke eh prommus. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh tink say de leely Gal bin a talk, an dat eh bin broke eh prommus. Who acts: Eh, leely Gal, dat eh bin. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5, 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 5, sentence 19

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Eh tink say de leely Gal bin a talk, an dat eh bin broke eh prommus.

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**Who acts:** Eh, leely Gal, dat eh bin · **What happens:** say, bin, break · **To what, where:** de, talk, eh · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh, leely Gal, dat eh bin), 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:pg76586:5:19
# text = Eh tink say de leely Gal bin a talk, an dat eh bin broke eh prommus.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	tink	tink	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	leely	leely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	eh	eh	X	GW	_	15	obj	_	_
17	prommus	prommus	X	NN	_	16	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Eh | de |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bin** | present | leely Gal | a talk |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent talk=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | past | a dat eh bin | eh |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eh=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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