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title: Buh Fox him mek answer: “Dat so;” an wid dat eh pit Buh Squirle een… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Fox him mek answer: “Dat so;” an wid dat eh pit Buh Squirle een front er um, an eh fall on eh knee, an eh kibber eh yeye wid eh han, an eh tun een fuh say grace. Who acts: you, grace. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, pa
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 76

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Buh Fox him mek answer: “Dat so;” an wid dat eh pit Buh Squirle een front er um, an eh fall on eh knee, an eh kibber eh yeye wid eh han, an eh tun een fuh say grace.

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**Who acts:** you, grace · **What happens:** fox, say · **To what, where:** um, eh tun · **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 (you, grace), 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:pg76586:10:76
# text = Buh Fox him mek answer: “Dat so;” an wid dat eh pit Buh Squirle een front er um, an eh fall on eh knee, an eh kibber eh yeye wid eh han, an eh tun een fuh say grace.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Fox	fox	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	mek	mek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
17	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	Squirle	Squirle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	een	een	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	kibber	kibber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
34	eh	eh	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	33	appos	_	_
35	yeye	yeye	X	NN	_	34	goeswith	_	_
36	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
43	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	flat	_	_
44	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	45	discourse	_	_
45	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	acl:relcl	_	_
46	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fox** | imperative | you *not said here* | um |  |  |  | mek answer *obj*; a wid dat eh pit and een front er um and a eh fall on eh knee and a eh kibber and a eh tun *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | grace | a eh tun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tun=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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