---
title: Wen Buh Deer git to de fus mile pose, day was Buh Cooter day head er… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen Buh Deer git to de fus mile pose, day was Buh Cooter day head er um. Who acts: Wen Deer git. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/1/242/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Negro myths from the Georgia coast, to…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/) / [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/1/) / 242

# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 242

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wen Buh Deer git to de fus mile pose, day was Buh Cooter day head er um.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Wen Deer git · **What happens:** de, be · **To what, where:** fus mile pose, day head

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Wen Deer git), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:1:242
# text = Wen Buh Deer git to de fus mile pose, day was Buh Cooter day head er um.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	de	de	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pose	pose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **de** | to-infinitive | Wen Deer git *not said here* | fus mile pose and day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Wen Deer git | day head and um |  |  |  | Buh *nsubj*; um *conj* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 241](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/1/241/)
- next →: [sentence 243](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/1/243/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/1/)