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title: De nex day Buh Fox tek eh stan sider de big road an wait fuh de Ole… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De nex day Buh Fox tek eh stan sider de big road an wait fuh de Ole Man an eh waggin. 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 20

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De nex day Buh Fox tek eh stan sider de big road an wait fuh de Ole Man an eh waggin.

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**What happens:** wait · **To what, where:** day Buh tek

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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: 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:pg76586:10:20
# text = De nex day Buh Fox tek eh stan sider de big road an wait fuh de Ole Man an eh waggin.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	advmod	_	_
2	nex	nex	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sider	sider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	de	de	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	waggin	waggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | present |  | day Buh tek eh stan sider |  |  |  | de Ole Man; a eh waggin *obl:unmarked*; de big road *compound*; fuh *obj* | tree rules |

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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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