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title: Buh Wolf skaid, an eh conclude say de meat yent good. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf skaid, an eh conclude say de meat yent good. Who acts: Buh skaid. 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 43

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Buh Wolf skaid, an eh conclude say de meat yent good.

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**Who acts:** Buh skaid · **What happens:** conclude, say · **To what, where:** de meat yent · **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 (Buh skaid), 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:pg76586:10:43
# text = Buh Wolf skaid, an eh conclude say de meat yent good.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	skaid	skaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	conclude	conclude	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
9	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conclude** | present | Buh skaid |  |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Buh skaid *not said here* | de meat yent |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yent=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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