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title: Den eh fren mek answer: “Eh bin tell me nebber fuh trus nobody wuh c… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh fren mek answer: “Eh bin tell me nebber fuh trus nobody wuh call ehself fren, an wuh gwine run luk er coward soon es trouble come.” Who acts: bin, trus, fren, trouble. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, with it
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 108

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Den eh fren mek answer: “Eh bin tell me nebber fuh trus nobody wuh call ehself fren, an wuh gwine run luk er coward soon es trouble come.”

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**Who acts:** bin, trus, fren, trouble · **What happens:** tell, call, run, come · **To what, where:** nebber, fren, ehself, luk, es, fren mek answer · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bin, trus, fren, trouble), 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:pg76586:6:108
# text = Den eh fren mek answer: “Eh bin tell me nebber fuh trus nobody wuh call ehself fren, an wuh gwine run luk er coward soon es trouble come.”
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	X	GW	_	1	flat	_	_
3	fren	fren	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	mek	mek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
14	trus	trus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	nsubj	_	_
16	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
17	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
18	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	fren	fren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	wuh	wuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
25	luk	luk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	coward	coward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
28	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
29	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	parataxis	_	_
30	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | eh bin | nebber | fren |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient nebber=Topic |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | trus | ehself |  |  |  | nobody *nsubj* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ehself=Recipient |
| 3 | **run** *in a quote* | present | fren and a wuh gwine | luk |  |  |  | es *parataxis*; coward, soon *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luk=Agent |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | present | trouble | es *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location e=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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