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title: Buh Owl, him faid light, an eh yent der bole bud no how. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Owl, him faid light, an eh yent der bole bud no how. Who acts: eh yent. 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 151

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Buh Owl, him faid light, an eh yent der bole bud no how.

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**Who acts:** eh yent · **What happens:** bud · **To what, where:** Owl faid light

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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 (eh yent), 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:pg76586:3:151
# text = Buh Owl, him faid light, an eh yent der bole bud no how.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Owl	Owl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	faid	faid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
12	bole	bole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bud** |  | a eh yent |  |  |  |  |  | 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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