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title: Buh Tiger bleege fuh stop teh listne ter um. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Tiger bleege fuh stop teh listne ter um. Who acts: Buh bleege 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 37

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Buh Tiger bleege fuh stop teh listne ter um.

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**Who acts:** Buh bleege fuh · **What happens:** stop · **To what, where:** ter 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 (Buh bleege 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:pg76586:12:37
# text = Buh Tiger bleege fuh stop teh listne ter um.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	bleege	bleege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	teh	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art|Typo=Yes	7	det	_	_
7	listne	listne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	dep	_	_
8	ter	ter	X	FW	_	9	compound	_	_
9	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | Buh bleege fuh | ter um |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality um=Eventuality |

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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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