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title: Wen Buh Rooster clean forgit Buh Hawk, an leh eh chillun play bout e… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen Buh Rooster clean forgit Buh Hawk, an leh eh chillun play bout een de grass, befo eh know, down drap Buh Fowl-Hawk, an eh ketch up one er dem same Buh Rooster chillun. Who acts: Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, par
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 48

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Wen Buh Rooster clean forgit Buh Hawk, an leh eh chillun play bout een de grass, befo eh know, down drap Buh Fowl-Hawk, an eh ketch up one er dem same Buh Rooster chillun.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** play, know, drap · **To what, where:** bout, Buh

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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:pg76586:2:48
# text = Wen Buh Rooster clean forgit Buh Hawk, an leh eh chillun play bout een de grass, befo eh know, down drap Buh Fowl-Hawk, an eh ketch up one er dem same Buh Rooster chillun.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	forgit	forgit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	leh	leh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
13	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
17	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	befo	befo	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
21	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	drap	drap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
25	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	Fowl	Fowl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
37	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
38	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
39	Rooster	rooster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | Buh  Wen clean forgit | bout |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bout=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | infinitive | Buh  Wen clean forgit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **drap** | infinitive | Buh  Wen clean forgit *not said here* | Buh |  |  |  | down *property* | 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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