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title: Buh Snake, him yeddy ebry wud dem talk, an eh gone to him house in d… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Snake, him yeddy ebry wud dem talk, an eh gone to him house in de swamp berry bex case de man wuh eh bin befren shouldder gone back on eh prommus and mek bad bargain fuh kill um. Who acts: mek bad bargain. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 155

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Buh Snake, him yeddy ebry wud dem talk, an eh gone to him house in de swamp berry bex case de man wuh eh bin befren shouldder gone back on eh prommus and mek bad bargain fuh kill um.

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**Who acts:** mek bad bargain · **What happens:** go, go back, um · **To what, where:** eh, dist, eh befren shouldder, eh prommus, dem talk

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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 (mek bad bargain), 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:pg76586:4:155
# text = Buh Snake, him yeddy ebry wud dem talk, an eh gone to him house in de swamp berry bex case de man wuh eh bin befren shouldder gone back on eh prommus and mek bad bargain fuh kill um.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Snake	Snake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ebry	ebry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	wud	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	nsubj	_	_
19	swamp	swamp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	bex	bex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	flat:foreign	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
25	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	_
26	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	befren	befren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	shouldder	shouldder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
30	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	back	back	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	prommus	prommus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
36	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
37	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
39	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | participle |  | a eh *not said here* | dist |  |  | house man *compound* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **go back** | participle |  | eh befren shouldder and fuh kill um *not said here* |  | eh prommus |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **um** |  | mek bad bargain |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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