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title: Buh Hawk mad, an wen eh see eh cant git no bittle from de Sun, eh fl… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Hawk mad, an wen eh see eh cant git no bittle from de Sun, eh fly back to Buh Rooster. 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 34

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Buh Hawk mad, an wen eh see eh cant git no bittle from de Sun, eh fly back to Buh Rooster.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** see, fly back · **To what, where:** eh cant git, Buh Rooster

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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:pg76586:2:34
# text = Buh Hawk mad, an wen eh see eh cant git no bittle from de Sun, eh fly back to Buh Rooster.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	bittle	bittle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Buh | eh cant git |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer git=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fly back** | infinitive | Buh *not said here* |  | Buh Rooster |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to rooster=Result |

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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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