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title: Befo you kin tun roun Buh Deer done gone out uh sight, an lef Buh Co… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Befo you kin tun roun Buh Deer done gone out uh sight, an lef Buh Cooter in de middle er de road duh laugh to isself. Who acts: Befo, road. 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 pragmatic
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 241

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Befo you kin tun roun Buh Deer done gone out uh sight, an lef Buh Cooter in de middle er de road duh laugh to isself.

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**Who acts:** Befo, road · **What happens:** go out, laugh · **To what, where:** sight, isself

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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 (Befo, road), 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:pg76586:1:241
# text = Befo you kin tun roun Buh Deer done gone out uh sight, an lef Buh Cooter in de middle er de road duh laugh to isself.
1	Befo	Befo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	flat	_	_
3	kin	kin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	list	_	_
7	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	uh	uh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lef	lef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	de	de	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
25	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	isself	isself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past · do-support | Befo  kin tun roun  Buh | sight |  |  |  | lef Cooter in de middle er de road *parataxis* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **laugh** | infinitive | road *not said here* |  | isself |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to isself=Recipient |

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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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