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title: Buh Goat an eh wife gwine yeddy wuh you duh say.” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Goat an eh wife gwine yeddy wuh you duh say.” Who acts: you. 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 72

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Buh Goat an eh wife gwine yeddy wuh you duh say.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** Goat · **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 (you), 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:pg76586:12:72
# text = Buh Goat an eh wife gwine yeddy wuh you duh say.”
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you | Goat |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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