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title: De nex mornin wen de Debble, wuh bin him husbun, leff de house an go… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De nex mornin wen de Debble, wuh bin him husbun, leff de house an gone fuh mine eh bidness, eh wife fine de nail dis es de horse bin say, an eh pit um een eh pocket. Who acts: fine dis es. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, p
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 65

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De nex mornin wen de Debble, wuh bin him husbun, leff de house an gone fuh mine eh bidness, eh wife fine de nail dis es de horse bin say, an eh pit um een eh pocket.

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**Who acts:** fine dis es · **What happens:** bin, say · **To what, where:** de, pocket, nex mornin wen · **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 (fine dis es), 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:pg76586:8:65
# text = De nex mornin wen de Debble, wuh bin him husbun, leff de house an gone fuh mine eh bidness, eh wife fine de nail dis es de horse bin say, an eh pit um een eh pocket.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	de	de	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Debble	Debble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	bin	bin	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	husbun	husbun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	leff	leff	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
19	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
20	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
21	bidness	bidness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
24	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	compound	_	_
27	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
30	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	compound	_	_
31	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	ccomp	_	_
39	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	flat	_	_
40	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | infinitive |  | de |  |  |  | husbun *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | fine dis es  de horse bin | eh pocket |  |  |  | a eh pit um *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pocket=Topic |

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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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