--- title: Buh Goat wife yeddy wuh Buh Wolf bin er play an sing, an eh say teh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics description: Buh Goat wife yeddy wuh Buh Wolf bin er play an sing, an eh say teh eh husbun: “Enty you yeddy wuh Buh Wolf duh play an duh sing: ‘Tenky goolly God, tunder an lightnin done sen meat een me house’? Who acts: wife yeddy, Tenky. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/12/67/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Negro myths from the Georgia coast, to…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/) / [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/12/) / 67 # Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 67 Buh Goat wife yeddy wuh Buh Wolf bin er play an sing, an eh say teh eh husbun: “Enty you yeddy wuh Buh Wolf duh play an duh sing: ‘Tenky goolly God, tunder an lightnin done sen meat een me house’? **Who acts:** wife yeddy, Tenky · **What happens:** bin, play, say, do, house · **To what, where:** sing, teh, duh sing · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (wife yeddy, Tenky), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg76586:12:67 # text = Buh Goat wife yeddy wuh Buh Wolf bin er play an sing, an eh say teh eh husbun: “Enty you yeddy wuh Buh Wolf duh play an duh sing: ‘Tenky goolly God, tunder an lightnin done sen meat een me house’? 1 Buh buh INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ _ 2 Goat Goat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 yeddy yeddy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 wuh wuh INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 6 Buh Buh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 8 bin bin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 er er PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sing sing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 eh eh NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 17 teh teh X GW _ 16 obj _ _ 18 eh eh NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 goeswith _ _ 19 husbun husbun NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 “ " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Enty Enty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 flat _ _ 24 yeddy yeddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 25 wuh wuh INTJ UH _ 27 discourse _ _ 26 Buh Buh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 duh duh INTJ UH _ 29 discourse _ _ 29 play play VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 duh duh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 sing sing NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 : : PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 34 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Tenky Tenky PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 36 goolly goolly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 tunder tunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 40 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 lightnin lightnin NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 42 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 amod _ _ 43 sen sen NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 45 een een NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 flat _ _ 46 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 compound _ _ 47 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bin** | present | Goat's wife yeddy | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **play** | infinitive | Goat's wife yeddy *not said here* | a sing and a eh | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Goat's wife yeddy *not said here* | teh eh | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent teh=Topic | | 4 | **play** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a duh sing | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Theme | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **house** *in a quote* | | Tenky God and tunder | | | | | a lightnin done sen meat *nsubj* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/12/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/12/68/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/12/)