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title: From dat day Buh Owl hate Buh Rooster, eh wife, an eh chillun. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: From dat day Buh Owl hate Buh Rooster, eh wife, an eh chillun. 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 160

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From dat day Buh Owl hate Buh Rooster, eh wife, an eh chillun.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** hate · **To what, where:** Buh

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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:pg76586:3:160
# text = From dat day Buh Owl hate Buh Rooster, eh wife, an eh chillun.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Owl	owl	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hate	hate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	list	_	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 | **hate** |  | Buh | Buh  a eh chillun |  |  | day |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer buh=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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