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title: Buh Mash-hen yeddy um, but eh fade fur trus eh head between Buh Alli… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Mash-hen yeddy um, but eh fade fur trus eh head between Buh Alligatur jaw. Who acts: eh, fur trus. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3, 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 3, sentence 10

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Buh Mash-hen yeddy um, but eh fade fur trus eh head between Buh Alligatur jaw.

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**Who acts:** eh, fur trus · **What happens:** fade, eh · **To what, where:** hen yeddy um, head

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eh, fur trus), 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:pg76586:3:10
# text = Buh Mash-hen yeddy um, but eh fade fur trus eh head between Buh Alligatur jaw.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Mash	Mash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fade	fade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	trus	trus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	eh	eh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	between	between	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	jaw	jaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fade** | present | eh | hen yeddy um  Buh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent um=Patient |
| 2 | **eh** | present | fur trus | head |  |  |  | between Buh jaw | 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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