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title: Buh Owl, him fetch er spade fuh dig de grabe, an bud bin day too fuh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Owl, him fetch er spade fuh dig de grabe, an bud bin day too fuh sing er hyme. Who acts: Buh, fuh. 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 131

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Buh Owl, him fetch er spade fuh dig de grabe, an bud bin day too fuh sing er hyme.

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**Who acts:** Buh, fuh · **What happens:** fetch, dig · **To what, where:** er spade, de, Buh Owl

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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, fuh), 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:pg76586:10:131
# text = Buh Owl, him fetch er spade fuh dig de grabe, an bud bin day too fuh sing er hyme.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Owl	Owl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	spade	spade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
9	dig	dig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	grabe	grabe	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
21	hyme	hyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** | present | Buh | er spade |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spade=Theme |
| 2 | **dig** | present | fuh | de |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent de=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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