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title: Wid dat Buh Deer gib up, an biggin fuh cry. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wid dat Buh Deer gib up, an biggin fuh cry. Who acts: Wid, Buh Deer. 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 38

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Wid dat Buh Deer gib up, an biggin fuh cry.

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**Who acts:** Wid, Buh Deer · **What happens:** dat, gib up · **To what, where:** biggin fuh cry

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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, Buh Deer), 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:pg76586:11:38
# text = Wid dat Buh Deer gib up, an biggin fuh cry.
1	Wid	Wid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dat	dat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gib	gib	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	biggin	biggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dat** | past | Wid | a biggin fuh cry |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gib up** | present | Buh Deer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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