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title: Buh Bluefinch meet Buh Sparruh duh pick seed in one ole fiel. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Bluefinch meet Buh Sparruh duh pick seed in one ole fiel. 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 208

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Buh Bluefinch meet Buh Sparruh duh pick seed in one ole fiel.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** meet, pick · **To what, where:** Buh, seed, one ole fiel

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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:pg76586:2:208
# text = Buh Bluefinch meet Buh Sparruh duh pick seed in one ole fiel.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Bluefinch	Bluefinch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	Sparruh	Sparruh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fiel	fiel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present | Buh | Buh |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buh=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **pick** | infinitive |  | seed |  | one ole fiel |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=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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