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title: Eh bin er talk bout ehself wen eh say dem bin head de ole coon dis t… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh bin er talk bout ehself wen eh say dem bin head de ole coon dis time, but eh Mossa an de tarruh gentlemans no know, and dem all gie de ole man big praise. Who acts: Eh er talk, eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 117

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Eh bin er talk bout ehself wen eh say dem bin head de ole coon dis time, but eh Mossa an de tarruh gentlemans no know, and dem all gie de ole man big praise.

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**Who acts:** Eh er talk, eh · **What happens:** say, gie · **To what, where:** dem bin head · **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 (Eh er talk, eh), 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:pg76586:8:117
# text = Eh bin er talk bout ehself wen eh say dem bin head de ole coon dis time, but eh Mossa an de tarruh gentlemans no know, and dem all gie de ole man big praise.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	er	er	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	bout	bout	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	de	de	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	coon	coon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
20	eh	eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
21	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	compound	_	_
24	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	gentlemans	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	know	know	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
31	all	all	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	gie	gie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
33	de	de	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Eh er talk bout wen  ehself | dem bin head |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent head=Topic |
| 2 | **gie** | present | eh |  |  |  |  | de big praise  ole man; a de tarruh gentlemans and no know and dem *nsubj*; all *property* | 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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