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title: Es eh bin der walk tru er deep swamp, Buh Tiger an Buh Bear tek eh t… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Es eh bin der walk tru er deep swamp, Buh Tiger an Buh Bear tek eh track an run um. Who acts: Es, Buh. 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 30

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Es eh bin der walk tru er deep swamp, Buh Tiger an Buh Bear tek eh track an run um.

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**Who acts:** Es, Buh · **What happens:** walk, track · **To what, where:** deep swamp, run 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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Es, 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:pg76586:12:30
# text = Es eh bin der walk tru er deep swamp, Buh Tiger an Buh Bear tek eh track an run um.
1	Es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
5	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	tru	tru	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	dep	_	_
7	er	er	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	swamp	swamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
12	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
17	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
18	track	track	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | infinitive | Es and eh bin | deep swamp |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme swamp=Trajectory |
| 2 | **track** | infinitive | Buh | a run um |  |  |  |  | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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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