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title: Buh Hawk tell um eh yent mek out wut. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Hawk tell um eh yent mek out wut. 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 36

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Buh Hawk tell um eh yent mek out wut.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** tell, mek out · **To what, where:** eh yent, wut · **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 (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:pg76586:2:36
# text = Buh Hawk tell um eh yent mek out wut.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	mek	mek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	wut	wut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Buh | eh yent |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent yent=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **mek out** | infinitive |  | wut |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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