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title: Buh Hawk mek answer: “Enty you bin tell me one day dat ef me kin ket… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Hawk mek answer: “Enty you bin tell me one day dat ef me kin ketch you in you bed you guine fine me? Who acts: Enty. 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 26

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Buh Hawk mek answer: “Enty you bin tell me one day dat ef me kin ketch you in you bed you guine fine me?

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**Who acts:** Enty · **What happens:** tell, fine · **To what, where:** Enty, Buh mek answer · **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 (Enty), 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:pg76586:2:26
# text = Buh Hawk mek answer: “Enty you bin tell me one day dat ef me kin ketch you in you bed you guine fine me?
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	mek	mek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Enty	Enty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	bin	bin	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	kin	kin	ADV	GW	Typo=Yes	25	advmod	_	_
18	ketch	ketch	X	NN	_	17	goeswith	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	goeswith	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	goeswith	_	_
24	guine	guine	X	JJ	_	17	goeswith	_	_
25	fine	fine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* |  | Enty |  | Enty |  |  | you *nsubj*; day dat ef  me *ccomp* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fine** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | Enty |  |  | kin *property* | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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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