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title: Den Buh Wolf ax um wuh eh duh do een dat crocus bag. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Wolf ax um wuh eh duh do een dat crocus bag. Who acts: duh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, 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 11, sentence 105

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Den Buh Wolf ax um wuh eh duh do een dat crocus bag.

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**Who acts:** duh · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Den ax um

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duh), 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:pg76586:11:105
# text = Den Buh Wolf ax um wuh eh duh do een dat crocus bag.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
7	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
8	duh	duh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	crocus	crocus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | duh | Den ax um |  |  |  | een *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent een=Eventuality |

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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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