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title: Es eh come fuh look topper Buh Wolf, Buh Wolf bin spec say eh woulde… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Es eh come fuh look topper Buh Wolf, Buh Wolf bin spec say eh woulder tan so close dat eh coulder graff um. Who acts: Es, Buh, spec. 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 e
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 142

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Es eh come fuh look topper Buh Wolf, Buh Wolf bin spec say eh woulder tan so close dat eh coulder graff um.

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**Who acts:** Es, Buh, spec · **What happens:** come, look, bin, say · **To what, where:** woulder tan · **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: who acts (Es, Buh, spec), 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:pg76586:10:142
# text = Es eh come fuh look topper Buh Wolf, Buh Wolf bin spec say eh woulder tan so close dat eh coulder graff um.
1	Es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	spec	spec	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
15	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
16	woulder	woulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	tan	tan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
20	dat	dat	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	coulder	coulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	graff	graff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Es |  |  |  |  | eh *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | Es *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bin** | present | Buh  topper and Buh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | spec | woulder tan |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tan=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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