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title: Arter Buh Wolf done shet up Buh Goat an eh wife, eh git eh fiddle an… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Arter Buh Wolf done shet up Buh Goat an eh wife, eh git eh fiddle an eh biggin fuh play an sing: “Tenky goolly God, tunder an lightnin done sen meat een me house. Who acts: Arter, eh biggin, lightnin. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 65

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Arter Buh Wolf done shet up Buh Goat an eh wife, eh git eh fiddle an eh biggin fuh play an sing: “Tenky goolly God, tunder an lightnin done sen meat een me house.

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**Who acts:** Arter, eh biggin, lightnin · **What happens:** do, play · **To what, where:** shet, sing, sen meat

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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 (Arter, eh biggin, lightnin), 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:pg76586:12:65
# text = Arter Buh Wolf done shet up Buh Goat an eh wife, eh git eh fiddle an eh biggin fuh play an sing: “Tenky goolly God, tunder an lightnin done sen meat een me house.
1	Arter	Arter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	shet	shet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
14	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	biggin	biggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
21	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Tenky	Tenky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	goolly	goolly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	tunder	tunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	lightnin	lightnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
33	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	sen	sen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
37	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:unmarked	_	_
38	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle | Arter | shet |  |  |  | up Buh Goat; git eh fiddle *obl*; a eh wife *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | infinitive | a eh biggin *not said here* | a sing |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Theme |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | a lightnin *not said here* | sen meat |  |  |  | een house *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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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