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title: Buh Pattridge, him mek answer: “Me dis bin gwine ax you wuh you bin… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Pattridge, him mek answer: “Me dis bin gwine ax you wuh you bin do wid all de meat.” Who acts: 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 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 15

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Buh Pattridge, him mek answer: “Me dis bin gwine ax you wuh you bin do wid all de meat.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** bin · **To what, where:** gwine ax, Buh mek answer

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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 (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:pg76586:12:15
# text = Buh Pattridge, him mek answer: “Me dis bin gwine ax you wuh you bin do wid all de meat.”
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
2	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
5	mek	mek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Me	me	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
21	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	orphan	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | you | gwine ax *not said here* |  |  |  | wid *property* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ax=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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