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title: Buh Fox tell um say eh bin er try fuh ketch um long time, but eh hab… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Fox tell um say eh bin er try fuh ketch um long time, but eh hab sich sharp yeye, an keen yez, an spry leg, eh manage fuh dodge um; an now wen eh got um at las, eh mean fuh kill um an eat um. Who acts: Buh, um, hab sich, eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacul
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 74

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Buh Fox tell um say eh bin er try fuh ketch um long time, but eh hab sich sharp yeye, an keen yez, an spry leg, eh manage fuh dodge um; an now wen eh got um at las, eh mean fuh kill um an eat um.

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**Who acts:** Buh, um, hab sich, eh, wen eh · **What happens:** tell, say, try, yeye, manage, get · **To what, where:** eh bin, ketch um, fuh dodge um, las, fuh kill um, um · **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, um, hab sich, eh), 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:pg76586:10:74
# text = Buh Fox tell um say eh bin er try fuh ketch um long time, but eh hab sich sharp yeye, an keen yez, an spry leg, eh manage fuh dodge um; an now wen eh got um at las, eh mean fuh kill um an eat um.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	er	er	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
11	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	um	um	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	sich	sich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	yez	yez	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	spry	spry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	manage	manage	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	dodge	dodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	_
39	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
42	um	um	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
47	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	parataxis	_	_
48	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
51	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	conj	_	_
53	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | um | eh bin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** | infinitive |  | ketch um |  |  | time |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Eventuality |
| 4 | **yeye** |  | eh hab sich |  |  |  |  | a keen yez *conj*; a spry leg *conj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **manage** | present | eh | fuh dodge um |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme |
| 6 | **get** | past | a wen eh |  |  | las |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **mean** | present | eh | fuh kill um |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Topic |
| 8 | **eat** | present | eh *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient |

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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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