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title: Dat de way Buh Alligatur an Buh Mash-hen come fur lib togerruh luk s… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dat de way Buh Alligatur an Buh Mash-hen come fur lib togerruh luk same fambly. 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 18

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Dat de way Buh Alligatur an Buh Mash-hen come fur lib togerruh luk same fambly.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** fur lib

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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:pg76586:3:18
# text = Dat de way Buh Alligatur an Buh Mash-hen come fur lib togerruh luk same fambly.
1	Dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
8	Mash	mash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	lib	lib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	togerruh	togerruh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
15	luk	luk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
17	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Buh  Dat de way | fur lib |  |  |  | a Buh Mash hen *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lib=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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