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title: Buh Hawk tek de greement, an eh try berry hade fuh come pon topper d… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Hawk tek de greement, an eh try berry hade fuh come pon topper de Sun in eh bed. Who acts: Buh Hawk tek. 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 6

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Buh Hawk tek de greement, an eh try berry hade fuh come pon topper de Sun in eh bed.

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**Who acts:** Buh Hawk tek · **What happens:** hade, come · **To what, where:** pon topper, eh bed

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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 Hawk tek), 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:pg76586:2:6
# text = Buh Hawk tek de greement, an eh try berry hade fuh come pon topper de Sun in eh bed.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
5	greement	greement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	hade	hade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hade** | present | Buh Hawk tek and de greement and a eh try berry |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | Buh Hawk tek and de greement and a eh try berry *not said here* | pon topper |  | eh bed |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location topper=Theme |

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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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