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title: Buh Wolf bague berry hard, an eh prommus say ef eh wife lem go him w… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf bague berry hard, an eh prommus say ef eh wife lem go him will hunt an fetch bittle right off. Who acts: eh prommus, prommus. 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 87

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Buh Wolf bague berry hard, an eh prommus say ef eh wife lem go him will hunt an fetch bittle right off.

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**Who acts:** eh prommus, prommus · **What happens:** say, go, hunt · **To what, where:** ef, fetch bittle, Buh bague berry · **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 (eh prommus, prommus), 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:pg76586:12:87
# text = Buh Wolf bague berry hard, an eh prommus say ef eh wife lem go him will hunt an fetch bittle right off.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	bague	bague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	prommus	prommus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	lem	lem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	fetch	fetch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	bittle	bittle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	right	right	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	off	off	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | a eh prommus | ef and eh wife lem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hunt** | future | prommus | a fetch bittle |  |  |  | off *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bittle=Theme |

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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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