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title: Buh Elephant, him gedder leaf an grass, an eat an eat tel eh full an… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Elephant, him gedder leaf an grass, an eat an eat tel eh full an cant eat no mo. Who acts: gedder leaf, cant. 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 108

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Buh Elephant, him gedder leaf an grass, an eat an eat tel eh full an cant eat no mo.

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**Who acts:** gedder leaf, cant · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** mo

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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 (gedder leaf, cant), 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:pg76586:4:108
# text = Buh Elephant, him gedder leaf an grass, an eat an eat tel eh full an cant eat no mo.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	_
5	gedder	gedd	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cant	cant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Elephant  Elephant's gedder leaf |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **eat** | present | Elephant  Elephant's gedder leaf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **eat** | present | a cant | no mo |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mo=Patient |

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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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