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title: Den Buh Bear, him tek eh book an eh read um, an eh preach er sarmint. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Bear, him tek eh book an eh read um, an eh preach er sarmint. Who acts: Den tek, eh. 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 134

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Den Buh Bear, him tek eh book an eh read um, an eh preach er sarmint.

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**Who acts:** Den tek, eh · **What happens:** book, read, preach · **To what, where:** eh, um, sarmint

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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 (Den tek, 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:pg76586:10:134
# text = Den Buh Bear, him tek eh book an eh read um, an eh preach er sarmint.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
6	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	book	book	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	preach	preach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	sarmint	sarmint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **book** | infinitive | Den tek | a eh and a eh |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eh=Theme |
| 2 | **read** | participle | a eh and a eh *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Topic |
| 3 | **preach** *speech: other* | infinitive | Den tek *not said here* | sarmint |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sarmint=Topic |

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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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