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title: Buh Rooster mek answer: “Budder, me yent hab no bittle fuh gie you. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rooster mek answer: “Budder, me yent hab no bittle fuh gie you. Who acts: eh. 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 38

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Buh Rooster mek answer: “Budder, me yent hab no bittle fuh gie you.

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**Who acts:** eh · **What happens:** hab, gie · **To what, where:** you, 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 (eh), 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:pg76586:2:38
# text = Buh Rooster mek answer: “Budder, me yent hab no bittle fuh gie you.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Budder	budder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	bittle	bittle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	gie	gie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hab** *in a quote* |  | a eh *= eh* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gie** *in a quote* | infinitive | a eh *= eh* *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | 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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