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title: Eh yent bin study bout Buh Wolf, er de Groun-mole wuh bin er bodder… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh yent bin study bout Buh Wolf, er de Groun-mole wuh bin er bodder de fiel. Who acts: de. 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 66

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Eh yent bin study bout Buh Wolf, er de Groun-mole wuh bin er bodder de fiel.

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**Who acts:** de · **What happens:** bodder · **To what, where:** yent study bout

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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 (de), 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:pg76586:6:66
# text = Eh yent bin study bout Buh Wolf, er de Groun-mole wuh bin er bodder de fiel.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	er	er	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	nsubj	_	_
11	Groun	Groun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	wuh	wuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	er	er	X	FW	_	17	compound	_	_
17	bodder	bodder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	_
19	fiel	fiel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bodder** |  | de |  |  |  |  | Groun *nsubj*; fiel *conj* | 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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