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title: Him say de rain duh fall so hebby Buh Goat an him wife couldnt mek o… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Him say de rain duh fall so hebby Buh Goat an him wife couldnt mek out wuh him duh sing. Who acts: wouldnt, de rain, Buh wife couldnt. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 75

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Him say de rain duh fall so hebby Buh Goat an him wife couldnt mek out wuh him duh sing.

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**Who acts:** wouldnt, de rain, Buh wife couldnt · **What happens:** say, fall, mek out · **To what, where:** wouldnt · **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 (wouldnt, de rain, Buh wife couldnt), 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:pg76586:12:75
# text = Him say de rain duh fall so hebby Buh Goat an him wife couldnt mek out wuh him duh sing.
1	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	compound	_	_
4	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
8	hebby	hebby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
10	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
13	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	mek	mek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
19	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | wouldnt |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fall** | infinitive | de rain |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mek out** | infinitive | Buh wife couldnt | wouldnt |  |  |  | duh sing *obl* | 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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