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title: Bimeby eh come pon topper de fus bank er san een de road, an den him… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby eh come pon topper de fus bank er san een de road, an den him bin know right off wuh happne. Who acts: Bimeby eh, san een. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 75

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Bimeby eh come pon topper de fus bank er san een de road, an den him bin know right off wuh happne.

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**Who acts:** Bimeby eh, san een · **What happens:** come, know · **To what, where:** pon topper

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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 (Bimeby eh, san een), 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:pg76586:8:75
# text = Bimeby eh come pon topper de fus bank er san een de road, an den him bin know right off wuh happne.
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	san	san	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
12	de	de	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
18	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	right	right	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
23	happne	happne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Bimeby eh | pon topper |  |  |  | fus bank *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | present | san een de road and a den  road |  |  |  |  | bin *nsubj*; happne *ccomp* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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