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title: Buh Wolf wife lick eh husbun tel eh holler, an eh tell um eh shant s… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf wife lick eh husbun tel eh holler, an eh tell um eh shant stay een de house bedout eh fine um een meat. Who acts: Wolf wife. 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 86

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Buh Wolf wife lick eh husbun tel eh holler, an eh tell um eh shant stay een de house bedout eh fine um een meat.

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**Who acts:** Wolf wife · **What happens:** lick, stay · **To what, where:** een de house

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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 (Wolf wife), 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:pg76586:12:86
# text = Buh Wolf wife lick eh husbun tel eh holler, an eh tell um eh shant stay een de house bedout eh fine um een meat.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lick	lick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	eh	eh	X	FW	_	9	compound	_	_
6	husbun	husbun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	shant	shant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
17	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	een	een	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	compound	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	bedout	bedout	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	flat	_	_
26	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lick** | present | Wolf wife |  |  |  |  | eh eh holler and a eh eh shant *ccomp* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stay** | infinitive | Wolf wife *not said here* | een de house |  |  |  | bedout eh fine um and meat | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme house=Location |

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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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