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title: Buh Rooster, him sarche de grass fuh seed an wurrum, an eh pick an e… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rooster, him sarche de grass fuh seed an wurrum, an eh pick an eat. Who acts: wurrum. 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 109

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Buh Rooster, him sarche de grass fuh seed an wurrum, an eh pick an eat.

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**Who acts:** wurrum · **What happens:** pick · **To what, where:** eat, seed

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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 (wurrum), 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:pg76586:4:109
# text = Buh Rooster, him sarche de grass fuh seed an wurrum, an eh pick an eat.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	compound	_	_
5	sarche	sarche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wurrum	wurrum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	eat	eat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | infinitive | a wurrum | a eat |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eat=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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