--- title: Opening, part 2 — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · full text with trees description: Opening, part 2, «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: V. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Negro myths from the Georgia coast, to…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/) / Opening, part 2 # Opening, part 2 Opening, part 2 of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones: the whole text, 223 sentences and 2536 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/2/page/2/) V.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") BUH FOWL-HAWK AN BUH ROOSTER.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Fowl-Hawk, him fly ebry day dis way and dat way ober de lan, an eh cant fine nuttne fuh eat.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh hail de Sun one time, an eh tell um eh so hongry eh ready fuh drap; dat eh cant git bittle fuh eat; an he dunno wuh fuh do.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") De Sun, eh say: “Budder, ef you kin ketch me in me bed, me gree fuh fine you in bittle.”[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Hawk tek de greement, an eh try berry hade fuh come pon topper de Sun in eh bed.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") But ebry time de Sun done git up befo Buh Hawk ketch de place way de Sun sleep.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Hawk gib up.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh dead tired.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") Den eh tun in an consult Buh Rooster.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Rooster yeddy him tale, and den eh say: “Me tell you, Buh Hawk, wuh you better do.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") You come sleep right ober me back; an wen, soon a mornin, you yeddy me knock me wing togedder and crow, you sail right off fuh de Sun house, an you kin ketch um befo eh git up from eh bed.”[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Hawk do dis es Buh Rooster tell um.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh come dat ebenin, an eh set on de tree-limb right ober way Buh Rooster duh sleep.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") Long befo day duh broke Buh Rooster knock eh wing togarruh an crow.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") Bless yo soul\![16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Fowl-Hawk wake up, eh switch eh tail, eh pitch off de tree, an eh mek fur de spot way de Sun blan sleep.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh ketch um een eh big house.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh day in eh bed.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Hawk, eh knock to de do.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") De Sun say: “Who dat?”[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Hawk mek answer: “Duh me.”[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") De Sun say: “Who you?”[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Hawk say; “Duh me, Budder Hawk.”[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") De Sun quire: “Wuh you want long me?”[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Hawk mek answer: “Enty you bin tell me one day dat ef me kin ketch you in you bed you guine fine me?[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") Now me done ketch you in de bed.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") Gimme de bittle you prommus me.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") Me berry hongry.”[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") De Sun bex.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh wunt come to de do, but eh holler back to Buh Hawk, an eh say: “You tun right roun, an you go to de man wuh pint you to ketch me in me bed, an you tell um fuh fine you.”[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Hawk rale disappint.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh try fuh swade de Sun, but de Sun wunt listne ter um; and de Sun dribe um way from him house.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Hawk mad, an wen eh see eh cant git no bittle from de Sun, eh fly back to Buh Rooster.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Rooster, him ax um: “Me Budder, how you mek out?”[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Hawk tell um eh yent mek out wut.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") Den eh up an quaint Buh Rooster how de Sun wouldnt gie um no bittle fuh eat; how eh dribe um way; an how eh tell um fuh go back to de man wuh pit um on de trail fuh ketch um in eh bed, an mek um fine um.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Rooster mek answer: “Budder, me yent hab no bittle fuh gie you.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") Me no kin fine you.”[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Hawk say: “Me dead tired.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") Me berry hongry.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") Me mus hab me payment.”[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Rooster say: “You cant git no payment outer me.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") All me got duh me wife an me chillun, an me know me yent guine gie you none er dem.”[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") Wen Buh Hawk see eh cant swade Buh Rooster fuh fine um, eh try narruh plan.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh leff Buh Rooster, an eh sail way up in de element tell eh done gone in de cloud.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") All de time eh duh watch Buh Rooster.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") Wen Buh Rooster clean forgit Buh Hawk, an leh eh chillun play bout een de grass, befo eh know, down drap Buh Fowl-Hawk, an eh ketch up one er dem same Buh Rooster chillun.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh fly off wid um to one big oak tree, an eh pick eh bone clean.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Rooster holler, but eh cant tetch Buh Hawk.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") De chicken sweet.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Hawk feel good.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") From dat day tell now, Buh Fowl-Hawk blan pick eh chance an lib off Buh Rooster chillun.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") VI.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") BUH TUKREY BUZZUD AN DE KING CRAB.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") You notus Buh Tukrey Buzzud.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") Him lub lamb, an dead cow, an dead horse, an snake, an alligatur, an all kinder varmint.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh berry lub dead fish too, but eh nebber bodder wid crab.[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") You sabe huccom so?[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") Lemme tell you.[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") One time one fisher-man bin come from fishin.[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh tek out de good fish, eh tring um on a mash grass, an eh lef in de boat some leely gannet-mullet an catfish wuh eh no want, an one big King Crab wuh eh bin ketch duh ribber.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") De sun hot.[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") De fish done dead.[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") Bimeby eh smell bad in de boat.[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Tukrey Buzzud, wuh bin a grine salt way up in de element, scent um, an down eh come.[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh gone in de boat an eh eat up de fish wuh day day.[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh dat greedy eh duh hunt fuh mo.[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh see de King Crab duh squat een de water duh bottom er de boat.[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh tretch open eh wing fuh skade de Crab an mek um come outer de water.[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Tukrey Buzzud faid water.[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh nebber will wet him foot ef eh kin help.[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") De King Crab see de Buzzud, an eh crawl up long side de boat.[73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Tukrey Buzzud ben ober fuh pick um.[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") De Crab graff Buh Tukrey Buzzud leg wid eh claw.[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Tukrey Buzzud hop an kick.[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh couldnt mek de Crab leggo.[77](77/ "tree and pragmatics") De ting hot um berry bad.[78](78/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Tukrey Buzzud rise wid de Crab duh heng on ter eh leg.[79](79/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh sail up in de element.[80](80/ "tree and pragmatics") De Crab stick ter um.[81](81/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Tukrey Buzzud try ebry plan fuh shake um off.[82](82/ "tree and pragmatics") De Crab wunt loose eh grip.[83](83/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Tukrey Buzzud tun summerset in de sky.[84](84/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh flap eh wing.[85](85/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh mek all sorter curous motion.[86](86/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh cant shake de Crab loose.[87](87/ "tree and pragmatics") Bimeby eh try fuh bite de Crab.[88](88/ "tree and pragmatics") All ob a sutten, de Crab tek eh tarruh claw, an eh fastne Buh Tukrey Buzzud roun eh neck.[89](89/ "tree and pragmatics") Yuh de big trouble now.[90](90/ "tree and pragmatics") One claw hole Buh Tukrey Buzzud foot; tarruh claw clamp Buh Tukrey Buzzud roun eh neck.[91](91/ "tree and pragmatics") De Bud duh choke.[92](92/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh gib up.[93](93/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh cant go no fudder.[94](94/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh dis leggo ebryting in de element, an eh fall heel ober head plash in de water.[95](95/ "tree and pragmatics") De minnit de King Crab fine isself in de ribber, eh loosne eh hole an eh gone der bottom.[96](96/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Tukrey Buzzud mose drown.[97](97/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh fedder wet.[98](98/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh splutter, eh wabble, an arter awhile eh manage fuh ketch eh bref, an eh mount eh wing, an eh sail off teh one dead libe-oak tree, wuh grow on de bank, an eh set down day an eh pick eh fedder, an eh watch de blood duh drap from eh neck an leg, an eh say to isself: “Me nebber guine bodder long crab gen long as me lib.”[99](99/ "tree and pragmatics") An eh nebber did.[100](100/ "tree and pragmatics") You show King Crab to Buh Tukrey Buzzud, an eh’ll leff um.[101](101/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh yent guine nigh um.[102](102/ "tree and pragmatics") All eh fambly faid um.[103](103/ "tree and pragmatics") VII.[104](104/ "tree and pragmatics") DE KING, EH DARTER, BUH WOLF, AN BUH RABBIT.[105](105/ "tree and pragmatics") One time er King hab er pooty Darter.[106](106/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Wolf an Buh Rabbit all two bin a spark at um an a cote um.[107](107/ "tree and pragmatics") De sanfly bin berry bad.[108](108/ "tree and pragmatics") De King tell Buh Wolf an Buh Rabbit de one wuh kin stan de sanfly de longes bedout bresh um way, shill git de gal.[109](109/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/2/page/2/) - ← previous: [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/1/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/2/page/2/) - ↑ back to [Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/)