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title: Buh Cooter, him call togedder him fren an tole um bout de bet an wen… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Cooter, him call togedder him fren an tole um bout de bet an wen de race fur run. Who acts: ALLIGATUR SLEEP FUR, togedder fren, wen, de race fur. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 233

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Buh Cooter, him call togedder him fren an tole um bout de bet an wen de race fur run.

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**Who acts:** ALLIGATUR SLEEP FUR, togedder fren, wen, de race fur · **What happens:** call, bet, fur, run · **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 (ALLIGATUR SLEEP FUR, togedder fren, wen, de race fur), 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:pg76586:1:233
# text = Buh Cooter, him call togedder him fren an tole um bout de bet an wen de race fur run.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	togedder	togedd	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	fren	fren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	tole	tole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
14	bet	bet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
20	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | ALLIGATUR SLEEP FUR *= fur* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bet** | infinitive | togedder fren  a um bout |  |  |  |  |  | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fur** |  | wen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **run** | present | a de race fur *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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