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title: Fus ting eh know, Buh Tiger biggin fuh crawl up de tree fuh ketch um. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fus ting eh know, Buh Tiger biggin fuh crawl up de tree fuh ketch um. Who acts: Fus ting eh, Buh biggin fuh. 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 33

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Fus ting eh know, Buh Tiger biggin fuh crawl up de tree fuh ketch um.

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**Who acts:** Fus ting eh, Buh biggin fuh · **What happens:** know, crawl up · **To what, where:** de tree · **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 (Fus ting eh, Buh biggin fuh), 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:pg76586:12:33
# text = Fus ting eh know, Buh Tiger biggin fuh crawl up de tree fuh ketch um.
1	Fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	biggin	biggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	crawl	crawl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Fus ting eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **crawl up** | present | Buh biggin fuh | de tree and fuh ketch um |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=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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