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title: Buh Rooster, him bin prommus Buh Owl dat eh yent guine tell who duh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rooster, him bin prommus Buh Owl dat eh yent guine tell who duh sing an play. Who acts: dem, Buh, eh yent guine. 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 154

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Buh Rooster, him bin prommus Buh Owl dat eh yent guine tell who duh sing an play.

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**Who acts:** dem, Buh, eh yent guine · **What happens:** bin, dat, tell, sing · **To what, where:** play · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (dem, Buh, eh yent guine), 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:pg76586:3:154
# text = Buh Rooster, him bin prommus Buh Owl dat eh yent guine tell who duh sing an play.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	prommus	prommus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Owl	Owl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	dat	dat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | dem |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dat** | past | Buh  prommus |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | eh yent guine |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive |  | a play |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location play=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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