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title: Buh Wolf yeye shet tight, an eh dis bin er rock from side ter side,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf yeye shet tight, an eh dis bin er rock from side ter side, an draw eh bow teh eh berry lenk, en der pat de time wid eh foot. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 66

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Buh Wolf yeye shet tight, an eh dis bin er rock from side ter side, an draw eh bow teh eh berry lenk, en der pat de time wid eh foot.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** bow · **To what, where:** eh berry lenk

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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:pg76586:11:66
# text = Buh Wolf yeye shet tight, an eh dis bin er rock from side ter side, an draw eh bow teh eh berry lenk, en der pat de time wid eh foot.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	shet	shet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	tight	tight	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
11	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	draw	draw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
21	bow	bow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	teh	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art|Typo=Yes	25	det	_	_
23	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	lenk	lenk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	pat	pat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	29	flat:foreign	_	_
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bow** | present | Buh | the eh berry lenk and en and der pat and time and wid eh foot |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lenk=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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