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title: Buh Alligatur nebber does trubble Buh Mash-hen an eh chillun. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Alligatur nebber does trubble Buh Mash-hen an eh chillun. Who acts: Buh nebber. 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 220

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Buh Alligatur nebber does trubble Buh Mash-hen an eh chillun.

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**Who acts:** Buh nebber · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Buh

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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 nebber), 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:pg76586:2:220
# text = Buh Alligatur nebber does trubble Buh Mash-hen an eh chillun.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	trubble	trubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	Mash	Mash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | Buh nebber | Buh  trubble |  |  |  | a eh chillun *obl:unmarked* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buh=Eventuality |

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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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