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title: Buh Alligatuh so bex eh yent yeddy say eh bin Buh Wolf woice, an eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Alligatuh so bex eh yent yeddy say eh bin Buh Wolf woice, an eh keep duh pile on de lick tell eh tare de crocus an cut de bag down. Who acts: bex. 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 t
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 128

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Buh Alligatuh so bex eh yent yeddy say eh bin Buh Wolf woice, an eh keep duh pile on de lick tell eh tare de crocus an cut de bag down.

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**Who acts:** bex · **What happens:** say, keep, tell · **To what, where:** duh pile, tare de crocus, lick · **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 (bex), 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:pg76586:11:128
# text = Buh Alligatuh so bex eh yent yeddy say eh bin Buh Wolf woice, an eh keep duh pile on de lick tell eh tare de crocus an cut de bag down.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
2	Alligatuh	alligatuh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	bex	bex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	eh	eh	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	4	appos	_	_
6	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	woice	woice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
18	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	lick	lick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
23	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
24	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	tare	tare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	crocus	crocus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
32	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | bex and yent yeddy |  |  |  |  | bin Wolf woice *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive |  | duh pile |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pile=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present |  | tare de crocus |  | de's lick |  | a de bag *obj*; down *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent crocus=Recipient bag=Topic |

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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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