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title: Den Buh Wolf help um on eh back, an state fuh trot fuh de Gal house. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Wolf help um on eh back, an state fuh trot fuh de Gal house. Who acts: Den. 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 98

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Den Buh Wolf help um on eh back, an state fuh trot fuh de Gal house.

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** help · **To what, where:** um, eh

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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), 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:pg76586:3:98
# text = Den Buh Wolf help um on eh back, an state fuh trot fuh de Gal house.
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	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	trot	trot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
15	de	de	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Den | um |  | eh |  | a state fuh trot fuh de Gal house *parataxis* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Beneficiary |

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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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