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title: Een er leely wile de chune sweeten Buh Tiger so bad eh forgit ter fo… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Een er leely wile de chune sweeten Buh Tiger so bad eh forgit ter foller de man, an eh tun roun an come down de tree, an him an Buh Bear graff han, an all two set een fuh dance. Who acts: Een leely wile, an, man, two. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Char
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 38

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Een er leely wile de chune sweeten Buh Tiger so bad eh forgit ter foller de man, an eh tun roun an come down de tree, an him an Buh Bear graff han, an all two set een fuh dance.

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**Who acts:** Een leely wile, an, man, two · **What happens:** sweeten, come down, han, set · **To what, where:** Buh Tiger, tree, een fuh dance

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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 (Een leely wile, an, man, two), 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:pg76586:12:38
# text = Een er leely wile de chune sweeten Buh Tiger so bad eh forgit ter foller de man, an eh tun roun an come down de tree, an him an Buh Bear graff han, an all two set een fuh dance.
1	Een	Een	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	leely	leely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wile	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
6	chune	chune	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	dep	_	_
7	sweeten	sweeten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	forgit	forgit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	foller	foller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat:foreign	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	nsubj	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	graff	graff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
39	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nsubj	_	_
40	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
41	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
42	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweeten** | infinitive | Een leely wile | Buh Tiger |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tiger=Patient |
| 2 | **come down** | present | an | de's tree |  |  |  | down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |
| 3 | **han** |  | man |  |  |  |  | Buh *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **set** | past | a two | een fuh dance |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient dance=Result |

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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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