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title: Ebber sence, Buh Mash-hen kin walk bout de mash an de ribber, an bui… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ebber sence, Buh Mash-hen kin walk bout de mash an de ribber, an buil nes, an ketch fiddler an shrimp all round Buh Alligatur, an eh yent try fuh bodder um. Who acts: Buh hen kin, de. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 17

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Ebber sence, Buh Mash-hen kin walk bout de mash an de ribber, an buil nes, an ketch fiddler an shrimp all round Buh Alligatur, an eh yent try fuh bodder um.

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**Who acts:** Buh hen kin, de · **What happens:** walk, mash, try · **To what, where:** bout, de ribber, bodder um

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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 hen kin, de), 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:pg76586:3:17
# text = Ebber sence, Buh Mash-hen kin walk bout de mash an de ribber, an buil nes, an ketch fiddler an shrimp all round Buh Alligatur, an eh yent try fuh bodder um.
1	Ebber	Ebber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	sence	sence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
5	Mash	Mash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	nsubj	_	_
12	mash	mash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ribber	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	buil	buil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	nes	ne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	round	round	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
34	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
35	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	37	discourse	_	_
36	bodder	bodder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | Buh hen kin | bout |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bout=Trajectory |
| 2 | **mash** | present | de | a de ribber and a buil nes and a ketch fiddler |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ribber=Patient |
| 3 | **try** | infinitive | de *not said here* | bodder um |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Eventuality |

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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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