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title: Eh faid Buh Wolf come ketch um. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh faid Buh Wolf come ketch um. Who acts: Eh, Buh. 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 316

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Eh faid Buh Wolf come ketch um.

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**Who acts:** Eh, Buh · **What happens:** fai, come · **To what, where:** ketch um

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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 (Eh, Buh), 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:pg76586:1:316
# text = Eh faid Buh Wolf come ketch um.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	faid	fai	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fai** | past | Eh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | Buh | ketch um |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location um=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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