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title: Nobody yent shum tel arter brukwus next mornin, an den eh tell ebry… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody yent shum tel arter brukwus next mornin, an den eh tell ebry body say Det bin come fur um last night, but dat him bin dodge um. Who acts: den eh, ebry body, Det. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, with its depe
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 132

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Nobody yent shum tel arter brukwus next mornin, an den eh tell ebry body say Det bin come fur um last night, but dat him bin dodge um.

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**Who acts:** den eh, ebry body, Det · **What happens:** tell, say, come, bin · **To what, where:** ebry body, fur, dodge um, yent tel arter · **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 (den eh, ebry body, Det), 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:pg76586:6:132
# text = Nobody yent shum tel arter brukwus next mornin, an den eh tell ebry body say Det bin come fur um last night, but dat him bin dodge um.
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	shum	shum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	arter	arter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	brukwus	brukwus	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	next	next	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
8	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	ebry	ebry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	Det	Det	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	um	um	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	dat	dat	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
28	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
29	dodge	dodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a den eh | ebry body |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent body=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | infinitive | ebry body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | present | Det | fur |  |  | night |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fur=Theme |
| 4 | **bin** | present | a den eh *not said here* | dodge um |  |  |  | dat eh | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent um=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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