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title: Buh Wolf, him mek answer: “Me guine ter Cooter Bay fuh dine long um.” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf, him mek answer: “Me guine ter Cooter Bay fuh dine long um.” 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 131

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Buh Wolf, him mek answer: “Me guine ter Cooter Bay fuh dine long um.”

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**What happens:** dine · **To what, where:** long um, Buh mek answer

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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: 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:pg76586:3:131
# text = Buh Wolf, him mek answer: “Me guine ter Cooter Bay fuh dine long um.”
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
5	mek	mek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	guine	guine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	appos	_	_
11	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Cooter	Cooter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	dine	dine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dine** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | long um |  |  |  |  | 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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