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title: Buh Wolf bin er set een de do er him house duh play eh fiddle. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf bin er set een de do er him house duh play eh fiddle. Who acts: 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 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 64

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Buh Wolf bin er set een de do er him house duh play eh fiddle.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** er, play · **To what, where:** WOLF, fiddle

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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 (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:pg76586:11:64
# text = Buh Wolf bin er set een de do er him house duh play eh fiddle.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	er	er	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **er** | present · do-support | Buh | WOLF |  |  |  | house *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | infinitive | Buh *not said here* | eh fiddle |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=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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