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title: Buh Owl, him berry bex case Buh Rooster broke eh wud, an he fall out… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Owl, him berry bex case Buh Rooster broke eh wud, an he fall out wid Buh Rooster. Who acts: Buh, Buh Rooster. 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 159

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Buh Owl, him berry bex case Buh Rooster broke eh wud, an he fall out wid Buh Rooster.

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**Who acts:** Buh, Buh Rooster · **What happens:** berry, break, wu, fall out · **To what, where:** bex case, wid Buh 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, Buh Rooster), 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:pg76586:3:159
# text = Buh Owl, him berry bex case Buh Rooster broke eh wud, an he fall out wid Buh Rooster.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Owl	Owl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	berry	berry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	bex	bex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Rooster	rooster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	wud	wu	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Rooster	rooster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **berry** | present | Buh | bex case |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | past | Buh Rooster |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wu** | participle | Buh Rooster *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall out** | infinitive | Buh | wid Buh Rooster |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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