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title: Two, tree day arter dat, Buh Tukrey Buzzud bin a sail ober de same g… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Two, tree day arter dat, Buh Tukrey Buzzud bin a sail ober de same groun, an eh cotch de scent er someting dead. Who acts: Two. 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 c
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 34

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Two, tree day arter dat, Buh Tukrey Buzzud bin a sail ober de same groun, an eh cotch de scent er someting dead.

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**Who acts:** Two · **What happens:** bin, somet · **To what, where:** sail ober

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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 (Two), 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:pg76586:3:34
# text = Two, tree day arter dat, Buh Tukrey Buzzud bin a sail ober de same groun, an eh cotch de scent er someting dead.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	arter	arter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	Tukrey	Tukrey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	Buzzud	Buzzud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
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	ober	ober	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	flat:foreign	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	cotch	cotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
24	er	er	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	23	appos	_	_
25	someting	somet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	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 | Two and day arter dat | a sail ober and same groun and a eh de scent |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ober=Theme |
| 2 | **somet** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | 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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