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title: De tree serbant wuh bin een cohoot fuh tief de Ring, an wuh bin know… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De tree serbant wuh bin een cohoot fuh tief de Ring, an wuh bin know all bout um, biggin fuh faid say dem bin gwine fuh git fine out. Who acts: bin, De tree serbant, faid. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, with its d
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 15

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De tree serbant wuh bin een cohoot fuh tief de Ring, an wuh bin know all bout um, biggin fuh faid say dem bin gwine fuh git fine out.

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**Who acts:** bin, De tree serbant, faid · **What happens:** tief, know, say · **To what, where:** bout um, dem bin gwine · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bin, De tree serbant, faid), 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:pg76586:7:15
# text = De tree serbant wuh bin een cohoot fuh tief de Ring, an wuh bin know all bout um, biggin fuh faid say dem bin gwine fuh git fine out.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	serbant	serbant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
5	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	cohoot	cohoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tief	tief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	de	de	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wuh	wuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
16	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
18	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	biggin	biggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
23	faid	faid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nsubj	_	_
24	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
25	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
29	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	_
30	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tief** |  | bin |  |  |  |  | de Ring | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | De tree serbant and a wuh bin | all bout um and biggin |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer um=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | faid | dem bin gwine |  |  |  | git *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gwine=Topic |

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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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