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title: Buh Deer dat skaid eh dunno wuffer do. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Deer dat skaid eh dunno wuffer do. 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 34

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Buh Deer dat skaid eh dunno wuffer do.

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**What happens:** skai, do · **To what, where:** Buh

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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: 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:pg76586:11:34
# text = Buh Deer dat skaid eh dunno wuffer do.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	dat	dat	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	skaid	skai	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	eh	eh	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	dunno	dunno	X	FW	_	7	compound	_	_
7	wuffer	wuffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skai** | past · passive |  | Buh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present |  |  |  |  |  | eh dunno wuffer | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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