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title: Buh Elephant, him bin know Buh Rooster berry well. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Elephant, him bin know Buh Rooster berry well. Who acts: Elephant bin. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4, 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 4, sentence 104

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Buh Elephant, him bin know Buh Rooster berry well.

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**Who acts:** Elephant bin · **What happens:** know · **To what, where:** Buh Rooster berry

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elephant bin), 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:pg76586:4:104
# text = Buh Elephant, him bin know Buh Rooster berry well.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	appos	_	_
5	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	Rooster	rooster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Elephant bin | Buh Rooster berry |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer berry=Stimulus |

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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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