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title: Buh Wolf so tek up wid eh play dat eh shet eh yeye an yent duh watch… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf so tek up wid eh play dat eh shet eh yeye an yent duh watch wuh gwine on roun um. 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 72

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Buh Wolf so tek up wid eh play dat eh shet eh yeye an yent duh watch wuh gwine on roun um.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** tek up, play · **To what, where:** dat, roun um

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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:pg76586:11:72
# text = Buh Wolf so tek up wid eh play dat eh shet eh yeye an yent duh watch wuh gwine on roun um.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tek	tek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	eh	eh	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	dat	dat	X	GW	_	8	obj	_	_
10	eh	eh	X	GW	_	9	goeswith	_	_
11	shet	shet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
12	eh	eh	X	GW	_	9	flat	_	_
13	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
18	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
19	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tek up** | infinitive | Buh |  |  |  |  | wid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | infinitive | Buh *not said here* | dat |  | roun um |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=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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