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title: Wen Buh Wolf fine eh couldnt fool Buh Goat, eh change eh chune an eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen Buh Wolf fine eh couldnt fool Buh Goat, eh change eh chune an eh say: “Go long, Boy. Who acts: Wen, eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12, 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 12, sentence 100

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Wen Buh Wolf fine eh couldnt fool Buh Goat, eh change eh chune an eh say: “Go long, Boy.

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**Who acts:** Wen, eh · **What happens:** change, say, go · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen, eh), 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:pg76586:12:100
# text = Wen Buh Wolf fine eh couldnt fool Buh Goat, eh change eh chune an eh say: “Go long, Boy.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	change	change	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	eh	eh	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	nsubj	_	_
14	chune	chune	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | infinitive | Wen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | Boy *vocative*; long *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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