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title: One time dere was a King wuh bin done git marry, an eh bin hab one f… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One time dere was a King wuh bin done git marry, an eh bin hab one fine Ring wuh him bin call eh gagement Ring. Who acts: One time dere, wuh bin, dere. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and t
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 136

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One time dere was a King wuh bin done git marry, an eh bin hab one fine Ring wuh him bin call eh gagement Ring.

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**Who acts:** One time dere, wuh bin, dere · **What happens:** be, do, marry, call · **To what, where:** wuh bin, git, gagement Ring · **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 (One time dere, wuh bin, dere), 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:pg76586:6:136
# text = One time dere was a King wuh bin done git marry, an eh bin hab one fine Ring wuh him bin call eh gagement Ring.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	wuh	wuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
24	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	gagement	gagement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | One time dere | a wuh bin |  |  |  | a eh bin hab *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | participle | a wuh bin *not said here* | git |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **marry** | infinitive | a wuh bin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **call** | present | dere | eh gagement Ring |  |  |  | bin *compound* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Recipient |

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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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