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title: Buh Wolf yent duh listne ter um, but eh keep on duh pit de lick ter… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf yent duh listne ter um, but eh keep on duh pit de lick ter um. Who acts: eh. 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 352

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Buh Wolf yent duh listne ter um, but eh keep on duh pit de lick ter um.

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**Who acts:** eh · **What happens:** keep, lick · **To what, where:** duh pit de, ter um, yent ter 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), 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:pg76586:1:352
# text = Buh Wolf yent duh listne ter um, but eh keep on duh pit de lick ter um.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
5	listne	listne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	dep	_	_
6	ter	ter	X	FW	_	7	compound	_	_
7	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	eh	eh	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	lick	lick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | eh |  |  | duh pit de |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on de=Location |
| 2 | **lick** | present | eh *not said here* | ter um |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent um=Source |

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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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