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title: Eh know Buh Alligatur blan come out de ribber an sun isself in de br… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh know Buh Alligatur blan come out de ribber an sun isself in de broom-grass fiel. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1, 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 1, sentence 154

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Eh know Buh Alligatur blan come out de ribber an sun isself in de broom-grass fiel.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** know, come out · **To what, where:** Buh, de ribber · **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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg76586:1:154
# text = Eh know Buh Alligatur blan come out de ribber an sun isself in de broom-grass fiel.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	blan	blan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	list	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ribber	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	isself	isself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
15	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	fiel	fiel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | imperative | you *not said here* | Buh  blan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come out** | present |  | de ribber  a sun  isself |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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