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title: Buh Wolf, him bin er lay out on er bench een de middle er him house,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf, him bin er lay out on er bench een de middle er him house, kibber ober wid er wite clorte, an eh wife an eh chillun duh tan roun um duh cry. Who acts: Buh, tan roun um. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, wi
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 130

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Buh Wolf, him bin er lay out on er bench een de middle er him house, kibber ober wid er wite clorte, an eh wife an eh chillun duh tan roun um duh cry.

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**Who acts:** Buh, tan roun um · **What happens:** lay out, wite, cry · **To what, where:** er bench, clorte

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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: who acts (Buh, tan roun um), 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:pg76586:10:130
# text = Buh Wolf, him bin er lay out on er bench een de middle er him house, kibber ober wid er wite clorte, an eh wife an eh chillun duh tan roun um duh cry.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
5	bin	bin	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	er	er	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	advmod	_	_
14	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	kibber	kibber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	ober	ober	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
22	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	wite	wite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	clorte	clorte	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	35	discourse	_	_
33	tan	tan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
36	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	37	discourse	_	_
37	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay out** | present | Buh  dem |  |  | er bench |  | a eh wife and a eh chillun *parataxis* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bench=Destination |
| 2 | **wite** | infinitive | Buh  dem *not said here* | clorte |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | tan roun um *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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