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title: Buh Snake tell um eh faid fuh truss um; but wen de man bague de snak… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Snake tell um eh faid fuh truss um; but wen de man bague de snake berry hard fuh try um, de snake gree fuh do so. Who acts: Buh, um eh, wen man bague. 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 an
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 131

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Buh Snake tell um eh faid fuh truss um; but wen de man bague de snake berry hard fuh try um, de snake gree fuh do so.

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**Who acts:** Buh, um eh, wen man bague · **What happens:** tell, fai, try, gree, do · **To what, where:** fuh truss um, um, fuh · **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, um eh, wen man bague), 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:pg76586:4:131
# text = Buh Snake tell um eh faid fuh truss um; but wen de man bague de snake berry hard fuh try um, de snake gree fuh do so.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Snake	Snake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	faid	fai	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	truss	truss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	bague	bague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat:foreign	_	_
17	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
20	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
21	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	compound	_	_
25	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	gree	gree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
27	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fai** | past | um eh | fuh truss um |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** | infinitive | wen man bague and snake berry *not said here* | um and de snake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **gree** *not said to happen* | infinitive | wen man bague and snake berry *not said here* | fuh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | present | wen man bague and snake berry |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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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