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title: Buh Alligatur hail um an tell um wuh happne, and mek um sensible how… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Alligatur hail um an tell um wuh happne, and mek um sensible how bad de claw duh hot um, an how eh yent hab de power fuh git um out, an eh bague um fuh pull de ting out wid eh bill. Who acts: mek um, eh bague um. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charl
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 9

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Buh Alligatur hail um an tell um wuh happne, and mek um sensible how bad de claw duh hot um, an how eh yent hab de power fuh git um out, an eh bague um fuh pull de ting out wid eh bill.

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**Who acts:** mek um, eh bague um · **What happens:** claw, pull out · **To what, where:** de ting, happne

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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 (mek um, eh bague um), 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:pg76586:3:9
# text = Buh Alligatur hail um an tell um wuh happne, and mek um sensible how bad de claw duh hot um, an how eh yent hab de power fuh git um out, an eh bague um fuh pull de ting out wid eh bill.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	happne	happne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	compound	_	_
18	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
19	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
20	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
25	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
28	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	flat	_	_
29	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	bague	bague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	40	discourse	_	_
40	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
41	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	42	compound	_	_
42	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
44	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
45	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claw** |  | mek um |  |  |  |  | hot um *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pull out** | infinitive | a eh bague um | de ting |  |  |  | wid eh bill *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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