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title: Haw Buck! me lub my life dist es much es you lub yourn, an me no wan… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Haw Buck! me lub my life dist es much es you lub yourn, an me no want hab nuttne mo fuh do long you.” Who acts: you, Haw Buck. 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 c
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 99

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Haw Buck! me lub my life dist es much es you lub yourn, an me no want hab nuttne mo fuh do long you.”

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**Who acts:** you, Haw Buck · **What happens:** lub, want · **To what, where:** yourn, nuttne mo fuh

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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 (you, Haw Buck), 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:pg76586:12:99
# text = Haw Buck! me lub my life dist es much es you lub yourn, an me no want hab nuttne mo fuh do long you.”
1	Haw	Haw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Buck	Buck	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
5	lub	lub	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dist	dist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lub	lub	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	yourn	yourn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
19	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lub** | present | you | yourn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | present | Haw Buck  me lub my dist es and much es | nuttne mo fuh |  |  |  | me *nsubj*; you *xcomp* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fuh=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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