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title: Een de arternoon er de same day, wile Buh Wolf bin er hunt bittle, e… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Een de arternoon er de same day, wile Buh Wolf bin er hunt bittle, eh meet up wid Buh Goat, an eh ax um: “Buh Goat, wuh sort er mean trick dat wuh you bin do me dis mornin?” Who acts: Een de arternoon, er, Goat, you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charl
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 89

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Een de arternoon er de same day, wile Buh Wolf bin er hunt bittle, eh meet up wid Buh Goat, an eh ax um: “Buh Goat, wuh sort er mean trick dat wuh you bin do me dis mornin?”

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**Who acts:** Een de arternoon, er, Goat, you, eh prommus · **What happens:** wile, hunt, meet up, mean, bin, dis · **To what, where:** Buh bin, bittle, wid Buh Goat, trick, mornin · **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 (Een de arternoon, er, Goat, 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:pg76586:12:89
# text = Een de arternoon er de same day, wile Buh Wolf bin er hunt bittle, eh meet up wid Buh Goat, an eh ax um: “Buh Goat, wuh sort er mean trick dat wuh you bin do me dis mornin?”
1	Een	Een	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
3	arternoon	arternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	conj	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	wile	wile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	bittle	bittle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
18	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	31	discourse	_	_
31	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	35	discourse	_	_
34	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
36	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
37	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	dat	dat	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	37	appos	_	_
39	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	41	discourse	_	_
40	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
42	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	dis	dis	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	ccomp	_	_
45	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wile** | infinitive | Een de arternoon | Buh bin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hunt** | present | er | bittle |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bittle=Theme |
| 3 | **meet up** | infinitive | Een de arternoon *not said here* | wid Buh Goat |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | Goat | trick |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic |
| 5 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **dis** *in a quote* | present · do-support | a eh prommus *= prommus* | mornin |  |  |  |  | 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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