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title: Wile Buh Fox bin er do dis, Buh Squirle manage fuh slip way; an wen… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wile Buh Fox bin er do dis, Buh Squirle manage fuh slip way; an wen Buh Fox open eh yeye, eh see Buh Squirle duh run up de tree way him couldnt tetch um. Who acts: Wile bin er, Buh, fuh, wen Fox. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Ope
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 77

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Wile Buh Fox bin er do dis, Buh Squirle manage fuh slip way; an wen Buh Fox open eh yeye, eh see Buh Squirle duh run up de tree way him couldnt tetch um.

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**Who acts:** Wile bin er, Buh, fuh, wen Fox, open eh yeye, Buh duh · **What happens:** do, manage, slip, yeye, see, run up · **To what, where:** dis, way, tree way, tetch 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 (Wile bin er, Buh, fuh, wen Fox), 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:pg76586:10:77
# text = Wile Buh Fox bin er do dis, Buh Squirle manage fuh slip way; an wen Buh Fox open eh yeye, eh see Buh Squirle duh run up de tree way him couldnt tetch um.
1	Wile	Wile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Squirle	Squirle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	manage	manage	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
13	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
26	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	Squirle	Squirle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	duh	duh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	advmod	_	_
32	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	couldnt	couldnt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	tetch	tetch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | Wile bin er | dis |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dis=Eventuality |
| 2 | **manage** | present | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **slip** | present | fuh | way |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
| 4 | **yeye** |  | wen Fox |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | infinitive | open eh yeye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **run up** | present | Buh duh | tree way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **couldnt** | present | Buh | tetch um |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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