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title: Buh Fox meet um, an eh quire way eh git all dem fish. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Fox meet um, an eh quire way eh git all dem fish. Who acts: Buh. 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 16

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Buh Fox meet um, an eh quire way eh git all dem fish.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** meet · **To what, where:** um

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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), 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:pg76586:10:16
# text = Buh Fox meet um, an eh quire way eh git all dem fish.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	quire	quire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
13	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present | Buh | um |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Co-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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