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title: Buh Tukrey Buzzud rise wid de Crab duh heng on ter eh leg. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Tukrey Buzzud rise wid de Crab duh heng on ter eh leg. Who acts: Buh. 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 79

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Buh Tukrey Buzzud rise wid de Crab duh heng on ter eh leg.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** rise · **To what, where:** Crab, ter eh leg

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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:pg76586:2:79
# text = Buh Tukrey Buzzud rise wid de Crab duh heng on ter eh leg.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Tukrey	Tukrey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Buzzud	Buzzud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rise	rise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	Crab	Crab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	heng	heng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **rise** | infinitive | Buh | Crab  wid |  | ter eh leg |  | heng *obl*; Buzzud *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crab=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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