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title: Buh Tukrey Buzzud, wuh bin a grine salt way up in de element, scent… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Tukrey Buzzud, wuh bin a grine salt way up in de element, scent um, an down eh come. Who acts: Buh, 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 66

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Buh Tukrey Buzzud, wuh bin a grine salt way up in de element, scent um, an down eh come.

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**Who acts:** Buh, eh · **What happens:** bin, come · **To what, where:** salt way, de element

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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, 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:pg76586:2:66
# text = Buh Tukrey Buzzud, wuh bin a grine salt way up in de element, scent um, an down eh come.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Tukrey	Tukrey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Buzzud	Buzzud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	bin	bin	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	grine	grine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | infinitive | Buh | a salt way |  | de element |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme in element=Destination |
| 2 | **come** | present | a eh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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