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title: Wen eh scuffle outer de bag, Buh Alligatuh fine out fuh de fus time… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh scuffle outer de bag, Buh Alligatuh fine out fuh de fus time say eh binner whale up Buh Wolf, steader Buh Rabbit wuh bin tief eh agg. Who acts: Wen, Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, with its dependency 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 130

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Wen eh scuffle outer de bag, Buh Alligatuh fine out fuh de fus time say eh binner whale up Buh Wolf, steader Buh Rabbit wuh bin tief eh agg.

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**Who acts:** Wen, Buh · **What happens:** scuffle, fine out, say · **To what, where:** outer de bag, eh binner whale · **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 (Wen, 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:pg76586:11:130
# text = Wen eh scuffle outer de bag, Buh Alligatuh fine out fuh de fus time say eh binner whale up Buh Wolf, steader Buh Rabbit wuh bin tief eh agg.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	scuffle	scuffle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
6	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Alligatuh	Alligatuh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	fine	fine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	dep	_	_
14	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	eh	eh	X	FW	_	19	compound	_	_
18	binner	binner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	steader	steader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
25	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
26	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	wuh	wuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	tief	tief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
30	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	31	discourse	_	_
31	agg	agg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scuffle** | infinitive | Wen | outer de bag |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fine out** | past | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Buh *not said here* | eh binner whale |  |  | time | up Buh Wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent whale=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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