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title: Wid dat de Goose poke eh long head een de holler fuh look fuh Buh Ra… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wid dat de Goose poke eh long head een de holler fuh look fuh Buh Rabbit. Who acts: Wid dat. 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 59

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Wid dat de Goose poke eh long head een de holler fuh look fuh Buh Rabbit.

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**Who acts:** Wid dat · **What happens:** poke, look · **To what, where:** long head een, Buh Rabbit

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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 (Wid dat), 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:pg76586:10:59
# text = Wid dat de Goose poke eh long head een de holler fuh look fuh Buh Rabbit.
1	Wid	Wid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	de	de	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Goose	Goose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	poke	poke	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	_
11	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poke** | present | Wid dat de Goose | long head een and holler |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent een=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive |  | Buh Rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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