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title: Bimeby de Yaller Jacket scent de honey, an dem come out de nes an go… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby de Yaller Jacket scent de honey, an dem come out de nes an gone een de calabash fuh eat de honey. Who acts: scent de honey, gone calabash fuh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 125

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Bimeby de Yaller Jacket scent de honey, an dem come out de nes an gone een de calabash fuh eat de honey.

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**Who acts:** scent de honey, gone calabash fuh · **What happens:** come out, eat · **To what, where:** de honey

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scent de honey, gone calabash fuh), 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:pg76586:9:125
# text = Bimeby de Yaller Jacket scent de honey, an dem come out de nes an gone een de calabash fuh eat de honey.
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Yaller	Yaller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	Jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	de	de	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	nes	ne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
16	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	calabash	calabash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	compound	_	_
23	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | infinitive | scent de honey |  |  |  |  | a dem *nsubj*; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | present | a gone calabash fuh | de honey |  |  |  | de nes | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Patient |

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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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