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title: Buh Squirle bin berry busy duh gedder hickry not on de groun fuh pit… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Squirle bin berry busy duh gedder hickry not on de groun fuh pit way fuh feed ehself an eh fambly duh winter time. 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 71

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Buh Squirle bin berry busy duh gedder hickry not on de groun fuh pit way fuh feed ehself an eh fambly duh winter time.

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**What happens:** feed · **To what, where:** ehself, busy gedder hickry

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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:pg76586:10:71
# text = Buh Squirle bin berry busy duh gedder hickry not on de groun fuh pit way fuh feed ehself an eh fambly duh winter time.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Squirle	Squirle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
7	gedder	gedd	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	hickry	hickry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	advmod	_	_
12	groun	groun	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat	_	_
13	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
17	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
18	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
22	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
23	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | infinitive |  | ehself |  |  | time | a eh *obj*; fambly *property* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ehself=Recipient eh=Theme |

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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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