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title: Den Buh Wolf say: “Ef you nebber bin say no sich wud, you mus git up… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Wolf say: “Ef you nebber bin say no sich wud, you mus git up an go long me, an knowledge befo de Gal dat you nebber bin sisso.” Who acts: Den, Ef, you, knowledge befo. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3, with i
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 82

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Den Buh Wolf say: “Ef you nebber bin say no sich wud, you mus git up an go long me, an knowledge befo de Gal dat you nebber bin sisso.”

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**Who acts:** Den, Ef, you, knowledge befo · **What happens:** say, say up, git, go, dat · **To what, where:** sich wud, Den, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Den, Ef, you, knowledge befo), 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:pg76586:3:82
# text = Den Buh Wolf say: “Ef you nebber bin say no sich wud, you mus git up an go long me, an knowledge befo de Gal dat you nebber bin sisso.”
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	appos	_	_
9	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
13	sich	sich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	wud	wud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	mus	mus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
22	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	knowledge	knowledgeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	de	de	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	dat	dat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	sisso	sisso	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Den |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say up** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Ef | no sich wud and mus git |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wud=Topic |
| 3 | **git** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present |  | Den |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **dat** *in a quote* | past | a knowledge befo de Gal | you |  |  |  | bin sisso *obj* | 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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