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title: Eh hoop arter Buh Alligatur, an eh say: “Hey, Budder! wats de time e… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh hoop arter Buh Alligatur, an eh say: “Hey, Budder! wats de time er day? Who acts: Buh. 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 194

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Eh hoop arter Buh Alligatur, an eh say: “Hey, Budder! wats de time er day?

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** say · **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 (Buh), 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:pg76586:1:194
# text = Eh hoop arter Buh Alligatur, an eh say: “Hey, Budder! wats de time er day?
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	hoop	hoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	arter	arter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Hey	hey	INTJ	UH	_	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Budder	budder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
16	wats	wat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	conj	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	er	er	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Buh  Eh hoop arter |  |  |  | day; time | a eh *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hey=Topic |

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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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