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title: Me bin gib some er mine ter me wife, an eh gen um cramp colic right… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me bin gib some er mine ter me wife, an eh gen um cramp colic right off. Who acts: Me bin, mine. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 43

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Me bin gib some er mine ter me wife, an eh gen um cramp colic right off.

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**Who acts:** Me bin, mine · **What happens:** gib, ter · **To what, where:** er, me

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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 (Me bin, mine), 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:pg76586:9:43
# text = Me bin gib some er mine ter me wife, an eh gen um cramp colic right off.
1	Me	me	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gib	gib	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ter	ter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	cramp	cramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	colic	colic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
17	right	right	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	off	off	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gib** | infinitive | Me bin | some er |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ter** | past | mine | me |  |  |  | wife and a eh cramp colic *obj*; off *property* | tree rules |

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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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