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title: De rale name er dis cunjur man bin _Robin_, but him yent bin gib dis… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De rale name er dis cunjur man bin _Robin_, but him yent bin gib dis name ter de King. Who acts: Robin. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, 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 7, sentence 1

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De rale name er dis cunjur man bin \_Robin\_, but him yent bin gib dis name ter de King.

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**Who acts:** Robin · **What happens:** gib · **To what, where:** dis name ter, De rale name

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Robin), 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:pg76586:7:1
# text = De rale name er dis cunjur man bin _Robin_, but him yent bin gib dis name ter de King.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	rale	rale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
5	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Robin	Robin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gib	gib	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
22	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gib** | infinitive | Robin | dis name ter |  |  |  | yent bin *nsubj* | 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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