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title: Buh Fowl-Hawk, him fly ebry day dis way and dat way ober de lan, an… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Fowl-Hawk, him fly ebry day dis way and dat way ober de lan, an eh cant fine nuttne fuh eat. 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 3

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Buh Fowl-Hawk, him fly ebry day dis way and dat way ober de lan, an eh cant fine nuttne fuh eat.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** fly, eat · **To what, where:** ebry dis 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), 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:pg76586:2:3
# text = Buh Fowl-Hawk, him fly ebry day dis way and dat way ober de lan, an eh cant fine nuttne fuh eat.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	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	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	ebry	ebry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	ober	ober	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
16	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	lan	Lan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	cant	cant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
22	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
23	nuttne	nuttne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	dep	_	_
24	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
25	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | Buh | ebry dis way and that way |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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