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title: Wen Buh Hawk see eh cant swade Buh Rooster fuh fine um, eh try narru… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen Buh Hawk see eh cant swade Buh Rooster fuh fine um, eh try narruh plan. Who acts: Wen. 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 45

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Wen Buh Hawk see eh cant swade Buh Rooster fuh fine um, eh try narruh plan.

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**Who acts:** Wen · **What happens:** see, try · **To what, where:** eh cant swade, plan

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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 (Wen), 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:pg76586:2:45
# text = Wen Buh Hawk see eh cant swade Buh Rooster fuh fine um, eh try narruh plan.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	swade	swade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
11	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	narruh	narruh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
17	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Wen | eh cant swade |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swade=Stimulus |
| 2 | **try** | infinitive |  | plan |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Eventuality |

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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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