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title: You husbun duh de Debble, an wen eh saterfy long you eh gwine bex wi… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: You husbun duh de Debble, an wen eh saterfy long you eh gwine bex wid you an kill you same luk eh done kill dem tarruh wife wuh eh bin hab befo eh bring you yuh.” Who acts: husbun duh, you, same luk eh, kill dem. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 54

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You husbun duh de Debble, an wen eh saterfy long you eh gwine bex wid you an kill you same luk eh done kill dem tarruh wife wuh eh bin hab befo eh bring you yuh.”

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**Who acts:** husbun duh, you, same luk eh, kill dem · **What happens:** eh, kill, do, wife, bring · **To what, where:** gwine bex wid, eh bin hab, you

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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 (husbun duh, you, same luk eh, kill dem), 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:pg76586:8:54
# text = You husbun duh de Debble, an wen eh saterfy long you eh gwine bex wid you an kill you same luk eh done kill dem tarruh wife wuh eh bin hab befo eh bring you yuh.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	husbun	husbun	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	flat:foreign	_	_
3	duh	duh	PROPN	FW	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	flat:foreign	_	_
5	Debble	Debble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	saterfy	saterfy	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	eh	eh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	gwine	gwine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	bex	bex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	luk	luk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:agent	_	_
29	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	_
30	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
33	befo	befo	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
35	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	yuh	yuh	INTJ	UH	_	35	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eh** | present | husbun duh  You  Debble | gwine bex wid |  |  |  | you *nsubj*; long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** | present | you | gwine bex wid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wid=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | participle | same luk eh *not said here* | eh bin hab befo eh |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wife** |  | kill dem |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bring** | present | you |  | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |

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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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