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title: De tarruh fren bin yeddy say Bear no gwine eat dead people, so him l… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De tarruh fren bin yeddy say Bear no gwine eat dead people, so him leddown on de groun, an hole eh bref, an shet eh yeye, an mek out say him bin dead. Who acts: fren bin yeddy, gwine. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 99

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De tarruh fren bin yeddy say Bear no gwine eat dead people, so him leddown on de groun, an hole eh bref, an shet eh yeye, an mek out say him bin dead.

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**Who acts:** fren bin yeddy, gwine · **What happens:** say, bear, eat, bin · **To what, where:** dead people, him leddown · **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 (fren bin yeddy, gwine), 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:pg76586:6:99
# text = De tarruh fren bin yeddy say Bear no gwine eat dead people, so him leddown on de groun, an hole eh bref, an shet eh yeye, an mek out say him bin dead.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	advmod	_	_
2	tarruh	tarruh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
3	fren	fren	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	compound	_	_
16	leddown	leddown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	compound	_	_
19	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	bref	bref	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	shet	shet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
33	out	out	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | fren bin yeddy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bear** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **eat** | present | no gwine | dead people |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | him leddown on de groun and a eh bref and a eh yeye |  |  |  | a mek *obl*; gwine *obj*; out *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **bin** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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