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title: But Buh Alligatur, him schway to Buh Mash-hen dat eh yent guine trub… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Buh Alligatur, him schway to Buh Mash-hen dat eh yent guine trubble um, an dat ef eh would bleege um an pick de ting out, eh would be fren ter um an eh fambly all dem life, an mek all dem tarruh Alligatur fren too. Who acts: dat ef eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in t
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 12

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But Buh Alligatur, him schway to Buh Mash-hen dat eh yent guine trubble um, an dat ef eh would bleege um an pick de ting out, eh would be fren ter um an eh fambly all dem life, an mek all dem tarruh Alligatur fren too.

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**Who acts:** dat ef eh · **What happens:** bleege out, be · **To what, where:** um, dem Alligatur fren

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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 (dat ef 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:pg76586:3:12
# text = But Buh Alligatur, him schway to Buh Mash-hen dat eh yent guine trubble um, an dat ef eh would bleege um an pick de ting out, eh would be fren ter um an eh fambly all dem life, an mek all dem tarruh Alligatur fren too.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	_
6	schway	schway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	Mash	Mash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	dat	dat	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	11	appos	_	_
13	eh	eh	X	GW	_	12	goeswith	_	_
14	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	guine	guine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	trubble	trubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	bleege	bleege	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
25	um	um	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	pick	pick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	35	discourse	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
35	fren	fren	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	parataxis	_	_
36	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	35	dep	_	_
37	um	um	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
41	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	det	_	_
42	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
47	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	48	det	_	_
48	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
49	tarruh	tarruh	INTJ	UH	_	48	discourse	_	_
50	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	fren	fren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
52	too	too	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	51	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bleege out** | would | a dat ef eh | um |  |  |  | a de ting *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | um a eh  all dem life; fren *property* | 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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