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title: De spur hot Buh Wolf so bad eh couldnt do nuttne but run. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De spur hot Buh Wolf so bad eh couldnt do nuttne but run. Who acts: bad. 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 108

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De spur hot Buh Wolf so bad eh couldnt do nuttne but run.

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**Who acts:** bad · **What happens:** do, run · **To what, where:** nuttne, De spur

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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 (bad), 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:pg76586:3:108
# text = De spur hot Buh Wolf so bad eh couldnt do nuttne but run.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	spur	spur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | bad eh couldnt | nuttne |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nuttne=Eventuality |
| 2 | **run** | present | bad eh couldnt *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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