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title: Den Buh Cooter, him git mad, an eh tell Buh Deer dat ef eh does slow… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Cooter, him git mad, an eh tell Buh Deer dat ef eh does slow eh hab de bes win, an eh bet Buh Deer eh could beat um to de fibe mile pose. Who acts: Den, bes, Buh eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1, with its
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 230

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Den Buh Cooter, him git mad, an eh tell Buh Deer dat ef eh does slow eh hab de bes win, an eh bet Buh Deer eh could beat um to de fibe mile pose.

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**Who acts:** Den, bes, Buh eh · **What happens:** dat, do, win, beat, de · **To what, where:** ef eh, slow eh hab, eh bet, um, mile pose

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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 (Den, bes, Buh eh), 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:pg76586:1:230
# text = Den Buh Cooter, him git mad, an eh tell Buh Deer dat ef eh does slow eh hab de bes win, an eh bet Buh Deer eh could beat um to de fibe mile pose.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
6	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
14	dat	dat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	eh	eh	X	FW	_	20	compound	_	_
20	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	flat:foreign	_	_
22	bes	be	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
33	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	de	de	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
36	fibe	fibe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	pose	pose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dat** | past | Den  Cooter  cant and a eh tell and Buh Deer | ef eh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | Den  Cooter  cant and a eh tell and Buh Deer *not said here* | slow eh hab |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hab=Eventuality |
| 3 | **win** | present | bes | a eh bet |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hab=Eventuality |
| 4 | **beat** | could | Buh eh | um |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location um=Theme |
| 5 | **de** | to-infinitive | Buh eh *not said here* | mile pose |  |  |  |  | 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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