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title: At lenk Buh Wolf gie out say him berry sick. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: At lenk Buh Wolf gie out say him berry sick. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, 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 10, sentence 118

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At lenk Buh Wolf gie out say him berry sick.

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**What happens:** gie out, say, berry · **To what, where:** lenk, Buh · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 10. 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:pg76586:10:118
# text = At lenk Buh Wolf gie out say him berry sick.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	lenk	lenk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	gie	gie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	berry	berry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gie out** | present |  |  |  | lenk |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | Buh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **berry** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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