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title: Es eh pass by Buh Wolf house, eh notus Buh Wolf duh set een de do du… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Es eh pass by Buh Wolf house, eh notus Buh Wolf duh set een de do duh play eh fiddle. Who acts: Es, notus Buh Wolf. 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 71

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Es eh pass by Buh Wolf house, eh notus Buh Wolf duh set een de do duh play eh fiddle.

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**Who acts:** Es, notus Buh Wolf · **What happens:** pass, set, play · **To what, where:** een de, 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 (Es, notus Buh Wolf), 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:pg76586:11:71
# text = Es eh pass by Buh Wolf house, eh notus Buh Wolf duh set een de do duh play eh fiddle.
1	Es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	pass	pass	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
10	notus	notus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	de	de	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | infinitive | Es |  |  |  |  | by Wolf house | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by house=Location |
| 2 | **set** | infinitive | notus Buh Wolf | een de |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient de=Result |
| 3 | **play** | present · do-support | Es *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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