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title: Buh Tukrey Buzzud mek answer dat eh yent mek out wut; dat half de ti… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Tukrey Buzzud mek answer dat eh yent mek out wut; dat half de time eh cant fine nuttne fuh eat; dat eh so hongry eh mos ready fuh perish; but dat eh mek up eh mine ter keep on guine, an ter wait on de Lord. Who acts: hongry eh, ready fuh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told i
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 25

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Buh Tukrey Buzzud mek answer dat eh yent mek out wut; dat half de time eh cant fine nuttne fuh eat; dat eh so hongry eh mos ready fuh perish; but dat eh mek up eh mine ter keep on guine, an ter wait on de Lord.

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**Who acts:** hongry eh, ready fuh · **What happens:** eat, mos, perish, dat, keep · **To what, where:** eh, mek, guine

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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 (hongry eh, ready fuh), 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:pg76586:3:25
# text = Buh Tukrey Buzzud mek answer dat eh yent mek out wut; dat half de time eh cant fine nuttne fuh eat; dat eh so hongry eh mos ready fuh perish; but dat eh mek up eh mine ter keep on guine, an ter wait on de Lord.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
2	Tukrey	Tukrey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Buzzud	Buzzud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	eh	eh	PUNCT	GW	_	35	punct	_	_
8	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	goeswith	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
11	wut	wut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	7	conj	_	_
15	de	de	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	cant	cant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
19	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
20	nuttne	nuttne	X	FW	_	19	csubj	_	_
21	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
22	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	hongry	hongry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	mos	mos	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	perish	perish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	dat	dat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
36	eh	eh	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	up	up	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
41	ter	ter	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	ter	ter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	appos	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mos** | present | hongry eh | that eh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **perish** | present | ready fuh |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **dat** | past |  | mek |  |  |  | mine *obl*; Buh answer dat *compound*; yent mek *goeswith*; wut *flat*; dat half *conj*; time eh cant *nmod* | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep** | infinitive |  |  |  | guine |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on guine=Location |

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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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