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title: Him farruh bin rich, an eh dress um up ter de notch, an eh gie um sa… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Him farruh bin rich, an eh dress um up ter de notch, an eh gie um saddle horse fuh ride, an carriage fuh dribe, an plenty er serbant fuh wait on um, an ebry good bittle fuh eat, an rockin-chair fuh set een, an orgin fuh play topper. Who acts: Belle, um saddle, er serbant, chair fuh. A sentence of «N
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 24

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Him farruh bin rich, an eh dress um up ter de notch, an eh gie um saddle horse fuh ride, an carriage fuh dribe, an plenty er serbant fuh wait on um, an ebry good bittle fuh eat, an rockin-chair fuh set een, an orgin fuh play topper.

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**Who acts:** Belle, um saddle, er serbant, chair fuh · **What happens:** bin up, gie, ride, wait, eat, set · **To what, where:** eh dress, um, een

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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 (Belle, um saddle, er serbant, chair fuh), 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:pg76586:8:24
# text = Him farruh bin rich, an eh dress um up ter de notch, an eh gie um saddle horse fuh ride, an carriage fuh dribe, an plenty er serbant fuh wait on um, an ebry good bittle fuh eat, an rockin-chair fuh set een, an orgin fuh play topper.
1	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	um	um	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
11	ter	ter	X	FW	_	13	compound	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	_
13	notch	notch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	gie	gie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	dribe	dribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	serbant	serbant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
33	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	34	discourse	_	_
34	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	ebry	ebry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
40	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	bittle	bittle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
42	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	43	discourse	_	_
43	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	41	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
46	rockin	rockin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
50	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	acl	_	_
51	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
53	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
54	orgin	orgin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
55	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	_
57	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin up** | infinitive | Belle | a eh dress  um |  |  |  | ter notch and a eh *parataxis*; rich *property* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gie** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ride** |  | um saddle |  |  |  |  | a carriage fuh dribe and a er serbant and a ebry good bittle and a chair fuh *appos*; a orgin play topper *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wait** | infinitive | a er serbant *not said here* |  |  | um |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on um=Location |
| 5 | **eat** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **set** | participle | a chair fuh *not said here* | een |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient een=Result |

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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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