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title: Wid dat, eh leff Buh Tukrey Buzzud, an eh mek eh lunge fuh kibber de… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wid dat, eh leff Buh Tukrey Buzzud, an eh mek eh lunge fuh kibber de chicken. Who acts: eh mek eh. 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 32

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Wid dat, eh leff Buh Tukrey Buzzud, an eh mek eh lunge fuh kibber de chicken.

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**Who acts:** eh mek eh · **What happens:** lunge · **To what, where:** fuh de chicken, Wid dat

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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 (eh mek eh), 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:pg76586:3:32
# text = Wid dat, eh leff Buh Tukrey Buzzud, an eh mek eh lunge fuh kibber de chicken.
1	Wid	Wid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	leff	leff	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	Tukrey	Tukrey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	Buzzud	Buzzud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lunge	lunge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	kibber	kibber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lunge** | present | a eh mek eh | fuh de chicken |  |  |  |  | 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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