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title: Den Buh Wolf an eh wife biggin fuh quarrel an fight caze Buh Wolf sk… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Wolf an eh wife biggin fuh quarrel an fight caze Buh Wolf skaid Buh Goat an eh wife an lem git way. Who acts: Den, fight caze. 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 85

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Den Buh Wolf an eh wife biggin fuh quarrel an fight caze Buh Wolf skaid Buh Goat an eh wife an lem git way.

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**Who acts:** Den, fight caze · **What happens:** quarrel, skai · **To what, where:** Buh Goat

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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 (Den, fight caze), 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:pg76586:12:85
# text = Den Buh Wolf an eh wife biggin fuh quarrel an fight caze Buh Wolf skaid Buh Goat an eh wife an lem git way.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	biggin	biggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	caze	caze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	skaid	skai	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	lem	lem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quarrel** | infinitive | Den  a eh wife biggin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **skai** | past | a fight caze | Buh Goat |  |  |  | a eh wife  a git way *obl*; Buh *nsubj* | 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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