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title: Buh Rooster, him always blan hab a dark room fuh Buh Owl fuh set in… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rooster, him always blan hab a dark room fuh Buh Owl fuh set in wen eh duh play fuh de bud. Who acts: Buh. 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 148

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Buh Rooster, him always blan hab a dark room fuh Buh Owl fuh set in wen eh duh play fuh de bud.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** hab, set, play · **To what, where:** dark room, wen, fuh bud, Rooster

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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 (Buh), 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:pg76586:3:148
# text = Buh Rooster, him always blan hab a dark room fuh Buh Owl fuh set in wen eh duh play fuh de bud.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	blan	blan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
11	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Owl	Owl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	eh	eh	X	GW	_	7	appos	_	_
19	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
20	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	goeswith	_	_
21	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	flat:foreign	_	_
23	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hab** |  | Buh |  |  |  | always |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | participle |  | a dark room  Buh Owl *not said here* |  | wen |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in wen=Destination |
| 3 | **play** | infinitive |  | fuh bud |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bud=Theme |

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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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