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title: Befo eh bin fine um out fuh true, day bin er big yaller Rooster een… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Befo eh bin fine um out fuh true, day bin er big yaller Rooster een de gang wuh try fuh spute Buh Chanticleer, an mek eh brag say eh kin lick um. Who acts: Befo, Buh, eh kin. 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 15

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Befo eh bin fine um out fuh true, day bin er big yaller Rooster een de gang wuh try fuh spute Buh Chanticleer, an mek eh brag say eh kin lick um.

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**Who acts:** Befo, Buh, eh kin · **What happens:** bin out, try, say, lick · **To what, where:** fine um, um · **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 (Befo, Buh, eh kin), 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:pg76586:6:15
# text = Befo eh bin fine um out fuh true, day bin er big yaller Rooster een de gang wuh try fuh spute Buh Chanticleer, an mek eh brag say eh kin lick um.
1	Befo	Befo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	PROPN	ADD	_	1	list	_	_
3	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	er	er	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
14	yaller	yaller	X	FW	_	15	compound	_	_
15	Rooster	rooster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	gang	gang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
19	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
20	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
22	spute	spute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:desc	_	_
23	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
24	Chanticleer	Chanticleer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	brag	brag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
31	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	lick	lick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
34	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin out** | present | Befo  eh | fine um |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent um=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Buh  spute |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **lick** | present | eh kin | um |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent um=Source |

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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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