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title: Wen Buh Pattridge sorter vive, Buh Rabbit tell um eh no want de meat… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen Buh Pattridge sorter vive, Buh Rabbit tell um eh no want de meat, dat eh guine leff um. Who acts: Wen. 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 163

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Wen Buh Pattridge sorter vive, Buh Rabbit tell um eh no want de meat, dat eh guine leff um.

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**Who acts:** Wen · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** um · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen), 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:pg76586:2:163
# text = Wen Buh Pattridge sorter vive, Buh Rabbit tell um eh no want de meat, dat eh guine leff um.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	vive	vive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
15	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	eh	eh	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	appos	_	_
19	guine	guine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Wen  sorter vive and Buh | um |  |  |  | no want  de meat and dat *ccomp* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient |

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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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