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title: On ebry side dem bin er root up de tetter patch, and stroy pinder. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: On ebry side dem bin er root up de tetter patch, and stroy pinder. Who acts: bin er root. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 44

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On ebry side dem bin er root up de tetter patch, and stroy pinder.

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**Who acts:** bin er root · **What happens:** tetter, stroy · **To what, where:** patch, pinder

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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 er root), 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:pg76586:6:44
# text = On ebry side dem bin er root up de tetter patch, and stroy pinder.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	ebry	ebry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	case	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	conj	_	_
10	tetter	tetter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	stroy	stroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	pinder	pinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tetter** | present | bin er root | patch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stroy** | infinitive | bin er root *not said here* | pinder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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