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title: Eh bun up de horse too wuh bin help eh wife fuh run way. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh bun up de horse too wuh bin help eh wife fuh run way. Who acts: horse wuh bin, eh wife. 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 91

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Eh bun up de horse too wuh bin help eh wife fuh run way.

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**Who acts:** horse wuh bin, eh wife · **What happens:** help, run · **To what, where:** eh wife, way

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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 (horse wuh bin, eh wife), 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:pg76586:8:91
# text = Eh bun up de horse too wuh bin help eh wife fuh run way.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bun	bun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	wuh	wuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
13	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | horse wuh bin | eh wife |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | infinitive | eh wife *not said here* | way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |

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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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