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title: Den eh quire ob Buh Fowl-hawk how him duh git long dis yer tight time. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh quire ob Buh Fowl-hawk how him duh git long dis yer tight time. 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 26

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Den eh quire ob Buh Fowl-hawk how him duh git long dis yer tight time.

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**To what, where:** Buh

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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: 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:pg76586:3:26
# text = Den eh quire ob Buh Fowl-hawk how him duh git long dis yer tight time.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	eh	eh	PROPN	ADD	_	1	list	_	_
3	quire	quire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ob	ob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	Fowl	Fowl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
12	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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