---
title: Ebry day, wen Buh Wolf yent duh watch um, eh slip to Buh Wolf spring… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ebry day, wen Buh Wolf yent duh watch um, eh slip to Buh Wolf spring, an eh full him calabash long water an cah um to eh house fuh cook long and fuh drink. Who acts: Buh yent duh, cah um. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, pa
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/1/265/)

<!-- 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/) / 265

# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 265

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ebry day, wen Buh Wolf yent duh watch um, eh slip to Buh Wolf spring, an eh full him calabash long water an cah um to eh house fuh cook long and fuh drink.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Buh yent duh, cah um · **What happens:** watch, eh, cook · **To what, where:** um, house, long drink, Ebry day

<!-- .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 (Buh yent duh, cah um), 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:pg76586:1:265
# text = Ebry day, wen Buh Wolf yent duh watch um, eh slip to Buh Wolf spring, an eh full him calabash long water an cah um to eh house fuh cook long and fuh drink.
1	Ebry	Ebry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	duh	duh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
21	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
23	calabash	calabash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	cah	cah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	eh	eh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	33	discourse	_	_
33	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
34	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
37	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | present | Buh yent duh | um |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme |
| 2 | **eh** | infinitive | a cah um *not said here* | house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cook** | infinitive | a cah um *not said here* | long drink |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent drink=Patient |

<!-- .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 264](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/1/264/)
- next →: [sentence 266](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/1/266/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/1/)