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title: Eh bin er hoe cotton der fiel, an nobody bin tell um wuh mek dem sen… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh bin er hoe cotton der fiel, an nobody bin tell um wuh mek dem sen fuh um. Who acts: bin der fiel. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8, 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 8, sentence 111

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Eh bin er hoe cotton der fiel, an nobody bin tell um wuh mek dem sen fuh um.

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**Who acts:** bin der fiel · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** um · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bin der fiel), 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:pg76586:8:111
# text = Eh bin er hoe cotton der fiel, an nobody bin tell um wuh mek dem sen fuh um.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
3	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
4	hoe	hoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	fiel	fiel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	compound	_	_
11	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
15	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	sen	sen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
18	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | bin der fiel | um |  |  |  | mek dem sen *parataxis* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient |

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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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