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title: Buh Fox fine eh couldnt help ehself, an eh call arter Buh Squirle an… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Fox fine eh couldnt help ehself, an eh call arter Buh Squirle an eh say: “Nummine, Boy, you done git way now, but de nex time me clap dis han topper you, me gwine eat you fus an say grace arterward.” Who acts: Buh, eh, you, Nummine. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 78

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Buh Fox fine eh couldnt help ehself, an eh call arter Buh Squirle an eh say: “Nummine, Boy, you done git way now, but de nex time me clap dis han topper you, me gwine eat you fus an say grace arterward.”

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**Who acts:** Buh, eh, you, Nummine · **What happens:** help, say, way, time, clap, eat · **To what, where:** ehself, dis han topper, me gwine · **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, eh, you, Nummine), 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:pg76586:10:78
# text = Buh Fox fine eh couldnt help ehself, an eh call arter Buh Squirle an eh say: “Nummine, Boy, you done git way now, but de nex time me clap dis han topper you, me gwine eat you fus an say grace arterward.”
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
12	arter	art	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
14	Squirle	Squirle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Nummine	Nummine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	done	done	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	dep	_	_
32	nex	nex	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
35	clap	clap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
36	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
37	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	compound	_	_
42	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
43	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
44	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	fus	fus	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	say	say	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
49	arterward	arterward	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Buh | ehself |  |  |  | fine eh couldnt *nsubj*; a eh call *parataxis* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ehself=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **way** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **time** *in a quote* |  | a eh *= eh* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **clap** *in a quote* | present | Nummine *not said here* | dis han topper |  |  |  | you *obl* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location topper=Theme |
| 6 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | Nummine | me gwine |  |  |  | fus a say grace; you *obj* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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