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title: Buh Owl kin see de bud wuh duh dance, but de bud, dem cant see Buh O… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Owl kin see de bud wuh duh dance, but de bud, dem cant see Buh Owl. Who acts: Buh Owl kin, bud. 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 150

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Buh Owl kin see de bud wuh duh dance, but de bud, dem cant see Buh Owl.

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**Who acts:** Buh Owl kin, bud · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** de bud, Buh Owl

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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 Owl kin, bud), 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:pg76586:3:150
# text = Buh Owl kin see de bud wuh duh dance, but de bud, dem cant see Buh Owl.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
8	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	de	de	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	cant	cant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Owl	Owl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Buh Owl kin | de bud |  |  |  | duh dance *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bud=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | de bud and dem cant | Buh Owl |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer owl=Stimulus |

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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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