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title: Buh Wolf claim de bigges part, case him hab de bigges fambly. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf claim de bigges part, case him hab de bigges fambly. 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 37

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Buh Wolf claim de bigges part, case him hab de bigges fambly.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** claim · **To what, where:** bigges part

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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:pg76586:10:37
# text = Buh Wolf claim de bigges part, case him hab de bigges fambly.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	claim	claim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	_
5	bigges	bigge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
12	bigges	bigge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
13	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | present | Buh | bigges part  hab bigges |  |  |  | fambly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent part=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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