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title: Wen Buh Elephant done full, an der tan onder de tree duh flop eh yez… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen Buh Elephant done full, an der tan onder de tree duh flop eh yez, eh see Buh Rooster, dist es spry, duh walk bout an der swaller seed an grasshopper an wurrum same luk eh dis biggin fuh eat. Who acts: Wen, wurrum. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Char
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 110

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Wen Buh Elephant done full, an der tan onder de tree duh flop eh yez, eh see Buh Rooster, dist es spry, duh walk bout an der swaller seed an grasshopper an wurrum same luk eh dis biggin fuh eat.

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**Who acts:** Wen, wurrum · **What happens:** do, flop, see, walk, biggin, eat · **To what, where:** Elephant, eh, Buh Rooster

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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 (Wen, 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:pg76586:4:110
# text = Wen Buh Elephant done full, an der tan onder de tree duh flop eh yez, eh see Buh Rooster, dist es spry, duh walk bout an der swaller seed an grasshopper an wurrum same luk eh dis biggin fuh eat.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	tan	tan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	onder	onder	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	flop	flop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	eh	eh	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	yez	yez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
20	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Rooster	rooster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	dist	dist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	spry	spry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
28	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
29	bout	bout	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
32	swaller	swaller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
37	wurrum	wurrum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
38	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
39	luk	luk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	biggin	biggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
43	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	44	discourse	_	_
44	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	42	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  | Elephant *not said here* |  |  |  | full *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **flop** | infinitive | Wen | eh |  |  |  | a der tan *nsubj*; de's tree *nsubj* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eh=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | Wen *not said here* | Buh Rooster and dist es |  |  |  | spry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rooster=Stimulus |
| 4 | **walk** | infinitive | Wen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bout a der swaller seed and a grasshopper | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **biggin** |  | wurrum |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **eat** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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