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title: Buh Fox bin er watch um, an befo Buh Squirle shum, eh slip up an eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Fox bin er watch um, an befo Buh Squirle shum, eh slip up an eh graff um. Who acts: Buh Fox bin, Buh shum. 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 72

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Buh Fox bin er watch um, an befo Buh Squirle shum, eh slip up an eh graff um.

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**Who acts:** Buh Fox bin, Buh shum · **What happens:** watch, slip up · **To what, where:** um, eh graff um, Buh Fox bin

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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 Fox bin, Buh shum), 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:pg76586:10:72
# text = Buh Fox bin er watch um, an befo Buh Squirle shum, eh slip up an eh graff um.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	er	er	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	befo	befo	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	Squirle	Squirle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	shum	shum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	graff	graff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | infinitive | Buh Fox bin *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme |
| 2 | **slip up** | infinitive | a Buh shum *not said here* | a eh graff um |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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