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title: Buh Rooster, him tek de bet, an dem tun in nex mornin, wen de sun ji… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rooster, him tek de bet, an dem tun in nex mornin, wen de sun jis bin a git up, fuh see who guine win de bet. Who acts: bet sun jis. 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 o
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 107

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Buh Rooster, him tek de bet, an dem tun in nex mornin, wen de sun jis bin a git up, fuh see who guine win de bet.

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**Who acts:** bet sun jis · **What happens:** bin up, see, win · **To what, where:** git, de bet · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bet sun jis), 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:pg76586:4:107
# text = Buh Rooster, him tek de bet, an dem tun in nex mornin, wen de sun jis bin a git up, fuh see who guine win de bet.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	compound	_	_
5	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	flat:foreign	_	_
18	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	jis	ji	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	guine	guine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	nsubj	_	_
29	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
30	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin up** | present | bet sun jis | a git |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent git=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | bet sun jis *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **win** | present |  | de bet |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bet=Eventuality |

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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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