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title: Buh Lion cant mek de ting out, an eh come close, an eh say: “Hay! — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Lion cant mek de ting out, an eh come close, an eh say: “Hay! Who acts: Buh. 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 12

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Buh Lion cant mek de ting out, an eh come close, an eh say: “Hay!

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** come, say · **To what, where:** Hay · **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 (Buh), 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:pg76586:4:12
# text = Buh Lion cant mek de ting out, an eh come close, an eh say: “Hay!
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
6	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat:foreign	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
12	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | Buh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Buh | Hay |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hay=Topic |

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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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