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title: Steader dat, wen Buh Wolf yent bin er notus, eh step back, an eh tek… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Steader dat, wen Buh Wolf yent bin er notus, eh step back, an eh tek er bunch er cock-spur an eh lick um onder de horse tail. Who acts: Steader dat, er. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 97

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Steader dat, wen Buh Wolf yent bin er notus, eh step back, an eh tek er bunch er cock-spur an eh lick um onder de horse tail.

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**Who acts:** Steader dat, er · **What happens:** step back, spur · **To what, where:** eh tek

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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 (Steader dat, er), 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:pg76586:10:97
# text = Steader dat, wen Buh Wolf yent bin er notus, eh step back, an eh tek er bunch er cock-spur an eh lick um onder de horse tail.
1	Steader	Steader	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	notus	notus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	er	er	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	bunch	bunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	er	er	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	spur	spur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	lick	lick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
29	onder	onder	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	advmod	_	_
31	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step back** | infinitive | Steader dat and wen | a eh tek  er's cock spur er bunch |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spur** |  | er |  |  |  |  |  | nom spur «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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