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title: Buh Wolf grab de bridle an juk de horse mouf, an dat mek um rare up. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf grab de bridle an juk de horse mouf, an dat mek um rare up. Who acts: Buh. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 99

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Buh Wolf grab de bridle an juk de horse mouf, an dat mek um rare up.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** grab, bridle · **To what, where:** juk

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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), 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:pg76586:10:99
# text = Buh Wolf grab de bridle an juk de horse mouf, an dat mek um rare up.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	grab	grab	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	dep	_	_
5	bridle	bridle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	juk	juk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	mouf	mouf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
16	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | present | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bridle** | infinitive | Buh *not said here* | a juk and de horse mouf |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent juk=Destination |

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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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