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title: Buh Fowl-Hawk wake up, eh switch eh tail, eh pitch off de tree, an e… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Buh, de tree. 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 ev
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 17

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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.

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**Who acts:** Buh, de tree · **What happens:** wake up, switch, pitch off, spot · **To what, where:** eh tail, way

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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, de tree), 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:pg76586:2:17
# text = 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.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Fowl	Fowl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	wake	wake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	switch	switch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	eh	eh	X	AFX	_	11	compound	_	_
11	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	pitch	pitch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	flat:foreign	_	_
24	spot	spot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
27	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	blan	blan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake up** | present | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **switch** | infinitive |  | eh tail |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 3 | **pitch off** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **spot** | present | de tree  a eh mek fur | way |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Destination |

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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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