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title: Dat same Blue-Jay bin day de ebenin befo, an bin er see an er yeddy… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dat same Blue-Jay bin day de ebenin befo, an bin er see an er yeddy all wuh happne, but de leely Gal an de Alligatur nebber bin know. Who acts: you, Gal nebber bin. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5, with its dependen
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 21

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Dat same Blue-Jay bin day de ebenin befo, an bin er see an er yeddy all wuh happne, but de leely Gal an de Alligatur nebber bin know.

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**Who acts:** you, Gal nebber bin · **What happens:** see, know · **To what, where:** er yeddy

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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 (you, Gal nebber 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:pg76586:5:21
# text = Dat same Blue-Jay bin day de ebenin befo, an bin er see an er yeddy all wuh happne, but de leely Gal an de Alligatur nebber bin know.
1	Dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
3	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Jay	Jay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
9	ebenin	ebenin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
20	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
21	happne	happne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	advmod	_	_
25	leely	leely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	flat:foreign	_	_
29	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
30	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | a er yeddy |  |  | day | all happne *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | Gal nebber bin |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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