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title: Buh Fowl-hawk an Buh Tukrey Buzzud, dem bin a sail backwud and forru… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Fowl-hawk an Buh Tukrey Buzzud, dem bin a sail backwud and forrud in de element, duh look fuh see wuh dem kin pick up fur eat. Who acts: Buh, dem kin, fur. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tr
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 23

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Buh Fowl-hawk an Buh Tukrey Buzzud, dem bin a sail backwud and forrud in de element, duh look fuh see wuh dem kin pick up fur eat.

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**Who acts:** Buh, dem kin, fur · **What happens:** bin, look, see, pick up, eat · **To what, where:** sail backwud, fur

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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, dem kin, fur), 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:pg76586:3:23
# text = Buh Fowl-hawk an Buh Tukrey Buzzud, dem bin a sail backwud and forrud in de element, duh look fuh see wuh dem kin pick up fur eat.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	Fowl	Fowl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Tukrey	Tukrey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	Buzzud	Buzzud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
11	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	backwud	backwud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	forrud	forrud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
22	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
23	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
25	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	_
26	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	pick	pick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | Buh  a Buh Buzzud and dem | a sail backwud and forrud in de element |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent backwud=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **pick up** | present | dem kin | fur |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Topic |
| 5 | **eat** | present | fur *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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