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title: Buh Pattridge mek answer say him an eh fambly nebber bin nigh de Cow… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Pattridge mek answer say him an eh fambly nebber bin nigh de Cow sence eh fus leff um. Who acts: Buh answer, 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 18

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Buh Pattridge mek answer say him an eh fambly nebber bin nigh de Cow sence eh fus leff um.

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**Who acts:** Buh answer, eh · **What happens:** say, cow · **To what, where:** anarruh, sence eh · **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 answer, 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:pg76586:12:18
# text = Buh Pattridge mek answer say him an eh fambly nebber bin nigh de Cow sence eh fus leff um.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	de	de	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	Cow	cow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
15	sence	sence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	eh	eh	X	GW	_	14	obj	_	_
17	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Buh answer | anarruh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cow** |  | a eh | sence eh |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eh=Experiencer |

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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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