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title: Es dem pass one a nurruh, Buh Fowl-hawk, him ax Buh Tukrey Buzzud ho… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Es dem pass one a nurruh, Buh Fowl-hawk, him ax Buh Tukrey Buzzud how him mek out. Who acts: Es, 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 24

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Es dem pass one a nurruh, Buh Fowl-hawk, him ax Buh Tukrey Buzzud how him mek out.

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**Who acts:** Es, Buh · **What happens:** pass, mek out · **To what, where:** one nurruh

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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 (Es, 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:pg76586:3:24
# text = Es dem pass one a nurruh, Buh Fowl-hawk, him ax Buh Tukrey Buzzud how him mek out.
1	Es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nurruh	nurruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	Fowl	Fowl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	compound	_	_
14	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
16	Tukrey	Tukrey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	Buzzud	Buzzud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	mek	mek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | present | Es | a one nurruh |  |  |  | him ax *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nurruh=Trajectory |
| 2 | **mek out** | infinitive | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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