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title: Him no know de horse wuh him duh ride bin a yeddy um, an duh notus w… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Him no know de horse wuh him duh ride bin a yeddy um, an duh notus wuh him duh say. Who acts: wen. 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 52

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Him no know de horse wuh him duh ride bin a yeddy um, an duh notus wuh him duh say.

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**Who acts:** wen · **What happens:** ride, say · **To what, where:** bin · **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 (wen), 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:pg76586:8:52
# text = Him no know de horse wuh him duh ride bin a yeddy um, an duh notus wuh him duh say.
1	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	reparandum	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	know	know	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	de	de	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	notus	notus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	duh	duh	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | infinitive | wen | bin |  |  |  | a yeddy um and a duh notus *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | wen |  |  |  |  | duh *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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