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title: Buh Goat answer: “Yes, you yiz bin mek up you mine fuh kill we. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Goat answer: “Yes, you yiz bin mek up you mine fuh kill we. Who acts: yiz mek. 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 every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 98

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Buh Goat answer: “Yes, you yiz bin mek up you mine fuh kill we.

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**Who acts:** yiz mek · **What happens:** kill · **To what, where:** we, Goat answer

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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 (yiz mek), 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:pg76586:12:98
# text = Buh Goat answer: “Yes, you yiz bin mek up you mine fuh kill we.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	yiz	yiz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
15	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** *in a quote* |  | yiz mek  you  mine | we |  |  |  |  | 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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