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title: Lemme slip to Buh Wolf spring an git some water fuh cool um.” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lemme slip to Buh Wolf spring an git some water fuh cool um.” 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.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 281

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Lemme slip to Buh Wolf spring an git some water fuh cool um.”

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**What happens:** slip · **To what, where:** git

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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: 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:pg76586:1:281
# text = Lemme slip to Buh Wolf spring an git some water fuh cool um.”
1	Lemme	lemme	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	slip	slip	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip** |  |  | a git |  |  | spring | some water *obl*; cool um *obl* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent git=Patient |

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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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