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title: Buh Sparruh biggin fur brag, an eh say: “Me tetter, him heap bigger… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Sparruh biggin fur brag, an eh say: “Me tetter, him heap bigger den any me see. Who acts: Buh fur brag, brag. 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 197

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Buh Sparruh biggin fur brag, an eh say: “Me tetter, him heap bigger den any me see.

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**Who acts:** Buh fur brag, brag · **What happens:** say, tetter, heap, see · **To what, where:** bigger den · **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 (Buh fur brag, brag), 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:pg76586:2:197
# text = Buh Sparruh biggin fur brag, an eh say: “Me tetter, him heap bigger den any me see.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	Sparruh	Sparruh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	biggin	biggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	brag	brag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	tetter	tetter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	heap	heap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	reparandum	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Buh fur brag and a eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tetter** *in a quote* | present | Buh fur brag and a eh *= brag* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **heap** *in a quote* | present | brag | bigger den |  |  |  | me *obl* | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent den=Theme |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | brag *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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