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title: Buh Wolf so painful, so bex, an so shame, eh keep on run, an eh nebb… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf so painful, so bex, an so shame, eh keep on run, an eh nebber come back fur see de Gal no mo. Who acts: eh nebber. 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 claus
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 110

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Buh Wolf so painful, so bex, an so shame, eh keep on run, an eh nebber come back fur see de Gal no mo.

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**Who acts:** eh nebber · **What happens:** keep, come back, see · **To what, where:** run, fur, de

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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 nebber), 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:pg76586:3:110
# text = Buh Wolf so painful, so bex, an so shame, eh keep on run, an eh nebber come back fur see de Gal no mo.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	bex	bex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	so	so	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | infinitive |  |  |  | run |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on run=Location |
| 2 | **come back** | present | a eh nebber | fur |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | a eh nebber *not said here* | de |  |  |  | no mo *obj* | 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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