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title: Buh Wolf tell dem yes; an eh tun Buh Goat an eh wife een de shedroom… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf tell dem yes; an eh tun Buh Goat an eh wife een de shedroom, an eh shet de do behine dem an latch um. Who acts: Buh, eh tun, eh shet de. 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 pr
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 62

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Buh Wolf tell dem yes; an eh tun Buh Goat an eh wife een de shedroom, an eh shet de do behine dem an latch um.

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**Who acts:** Buh, eh tun, eh shet de · **What happens:** tell, shedroom, behine · **To what, where:** dem yes, dem · **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, eh tun, eh shet de), 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:pg76586:12:62
# text = Buh Wolf tell dem yes; an eh tun Buh Goat an eh wife een de shedroom, an eh shet de do behine dem an latch um.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	yes	yes	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
15	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	flat:foreign	_	_
17	shedroom	shedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	shet	shet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	behine	behine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
25	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	latch	latch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Buh | dem yes |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent yes=Recipient |
| 2 | **shedroom** |  | a eh tun |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **behine** | present · do-support | a eh shet de | dem |  |  |  | a latch um *obj* | tree rules |

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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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