--- title: Wen Buh Mash-hen see Buh Alligatur duh bague so harde, an wen eh fin… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics description: Wen Buh Mash-hen see Buh Alligatur duh bague so harde, an wen eh fine out eh bin der tell de trute, eh tek pity on um, an eh pit eh head in eh mouf an eh pull out de crab-claw, wuh fastne in eh teet, wid eh bill. Who acts: Wen, harde. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the ve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/3/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Negro myths from the Georgia coast, to…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/) / [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/3/) / 13 # Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 13 Wen Buh Mash-hen see Buh Alligatur duh bague so harde, an wen eh fine out eh bin der tell de trute, eh tek pity on um, an eh pit eh head in eh mouf an eh pull out de crab-claw, wuh fastne in eh teet, wid eh bill. **Who acts:** Wen, harde · **What happens:** see, tell, pull out · **To what, where:** hen, de trute, de crab claw · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Wen, harde), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg76586:3:13 # text = Wen Buh Mash-hen see Buh Alligatur duh bague so harde, an wen eh fine out eh bin der tell de trute, eh tek pity on um, an eh pit eh head in eh mouf an eh pull out de crab-claw, wuh fastne in eh teet, wid eh bill. 1 Wen Wen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 Buh Buh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 Mash Mash PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 6 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 7 Buh Buh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 Alligatur Alligatur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 9 duh duh INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ _ 10 bague bague NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 12 harde harde NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 wen wen NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 eh eh ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 eh eh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 21 der d ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 amod _ _ 22 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 23 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 24 compound _ _ 24 trute trute NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 eh eh INTJ UH _ 28 discourse _ _ 27 tek tek ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 pity pity NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 33 eh eh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 34 pit pit NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 eh eh NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 eh eh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 mouf mouf NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 eh eh NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod:unmarked _ _ 42 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 43 out out ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 44 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 45 crab crab NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 claw claw NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 wuh wuh INTJ UH _ 50 discourse _ _ 50 fastne fastne NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 parataxis _ _ 51 in in ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 eh eh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 compound _ _ 53 teet teet NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 55 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 56 eh eh NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 compound _ _ 57 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | infinitive | Wen | hen | | | | Buh *obj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer buh=Stimulus | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | harde and a wen | de trute | | | | tek pity on um and a eh eh head in eh mouf a eh *obl*; fastne in eh teet and wid eh bill *parataxis* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent trute=Recipient | | 3 | **pull out** | infinitive | harde and a wen *not said here* | de crab claw | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/3/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/3/14/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/3/)