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title: Dem see Buh Wolf duh tan in de fork er de road, an dem hail um, an d… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem see Buh Wolf duh tan in de fork er de road, an dem hail um, an dem say: “Hi! Who acts: Dem. 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 129

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Dem see Buh Wolf duh tan in de fork er de road, an dem hail um, an dem say: “Hi!

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**Who acts:** Dem · **What happens:** see, say · **To what, where:** Buh Wolf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Dem), 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:pg76586:3:129
# text = Dem see Buh Wolf duh tan in de fork er de road, an dem hail um, an dem say: “Hi!
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	tan	tan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	de	de	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive | Dem | Buh Wolf |  |  |  | tan and a hail um and a dem *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Dem *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hi=Topic |

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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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