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title: Buh Goat laugh at um, an eh answer: “Now you done speak you mine, le… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Goat laugh at um, an eh answer: “Now you done speak you mine, lemme tell you, you nebber gwine git narruh chance fuh ketch me. Who acts: Buh, lemme, you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tre
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 102

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Buh Goat laugh at um, an eh answer: “Now you done speak you mine, lemme tell you, you nebber gwine git narruh chance fuh ketch me.

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**Who acts:** Buh, lemme, you · **What happens:** laugh, speak, tell, git · **To what, where:** um, you · **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 (Buh, lemme, you), 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:pg76586:12:102
# text = Buh Goat laugh at um, an eh answer: “Now you done speak you mine, lemme tell you, you nebber gwine git narruh chance fuh ketch me.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	done	done	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
15	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	lemme	lemme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	narruh	narruh	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
28	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | present | Buh |  |  | um and a eh answer |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present |  | you |  |  |  | mine *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | lemme |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 4 | **git** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  | chance fuh ketch  me *appos* | tree rules |

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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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