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title: Long befo day duh broke Buh Rooster knock eh wing togarruh an crow. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Long befo day duh broke Buh Rooster knock eh wing togarruh an crow. Who acts: Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 2, 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 2, sentence 15

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Long befo day duh broke Buh Rooster knock eh wing togarruh an crow.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** break, knock · **To what, where:** eh wing

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh), 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:pg76586:2:15
# text = Long befo day duh broke Buh Rooster knock eh wing togarruh an crow.
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	duh	duh	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	knock	knock	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	togarruh	togarruh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past |  |  |  |  | day | duh *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **knock** | present | Buh | eh wing |  |  |  | a crow *obl* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |

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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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