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title: Buh Lion, him bin keep er bank. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Lion, him bin keep er bank. Who acts: Buh. 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 37

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Buh Lion, him bin keep er bank.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** bin, keep · **To what, where:** Buh, er bank

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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 (Buh), 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:pg76586:7:37
# text = Buh Lion, him bin keep er bank.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
7	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | Buh | Buh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | Buh *not said here* | er bank |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Theme |

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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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