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title: De ole ooman--wuh bin Buh Wolf wife--mek answer: “Enty me bin tell y… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De ole ooman--wuh bin Buh Wolf wife--mek answer: “Enty me bin tell you say Buh Goat an eh wife gwine yeddy? Who acts: De ole ooman, 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 82

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De ole ooman--wuh bin Buh Wolf wife--mek answer: “Enty me bin tell you say Buh Goat an eh wife gwine yeddy?

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**Who acts:** De ole ooman, you · **What happens:** bin, tell, say · **To what, where:** Buh · **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 (De ole ooman, 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:pg76586:12:82
# text = De ole ooman--wuh bin Buh Wolf wife--mek answer: “Enty me bin tell you say Buh Goat an eh wife gwine yeddy?
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
2	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ooman	ooman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
6	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	mek	mek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Enty	enty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	list	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | De ole ooman *= ooman* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | De ole ooman |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you | Buh |  |  |  | a eh gwine yeddy *obj* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent buh=Theme yeddy=Manner |

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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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