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title: Wid dat eh tell Buh Wolf fuh loose de bag offer de tree lim, an onti… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wid dat eh tell Buh Wolf fuh loose de bag offer de tree lim, an ontie um. Who acts: Wid, loose de bag. 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 113

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Wid dat eh tell Buh Wolf fuh loose de bag offer de tree lim, an ontie um.

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**Who acts:** Wid, loose de bag · **What happens:** tell, offer · **To what, where:** Buh Wolf, de tree lim · **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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wid, loose de bag), 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:pg76586:11:113
# text = Wid dat eh tell Buh Wolf fuh loose de bag offer de tree lim, an ontie um.
1	Wid	Wid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	dat	dat	X	GW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
10	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	compound	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	lim	lim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	ontie	ontie	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Wid |  | Buh Wolf |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wolf=Recipient |
| 2 | **offer** | present | loose de bag | de tree lim |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent lim=Theme |

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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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