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title: Eh no bin know say him bin er speak er true wud bout wuh bin een de… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh no bin know say him bin er speak er true wud bout wuh bin een de barrel. Who acts: bin. 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 116

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Eh no bin know say him bin er speak er true wud bout wuh bin een de barrel.

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**Who acts:** bin · **What happens:** know, say, bin, speak · **To what, where:** bin, true wud bout · **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), 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:pg76586:8:116
# text = Eh no bin know say him bin er speak er true wud bout wuh bin een de barrel.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	er	er	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	wud	wud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
15	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
16	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	_
17	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | no bin |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | bin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bin** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive |  | true wud bout  bin de barrel |  |  |  |  | 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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