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title: Buh Bear, him tired lib wid eh farruh an eh fambly, an eh tell eh fa… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Bear, him tired lib wid eh farruh an eh fambly, an eh tell eh farruh eh guine way fuh mek eh own libbin, an eh want um fuh gem wuhebber eh hab wuh cummin ter um from de fambly property. Who acts: fuh eh own libbin. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Cha
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 19

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Buh Bear, him tired lib wid eh farruh an eh fambly, an eh tell eh farruh eh guine way fuh mek eh own libbin, an eh want um fuh gem wuhebber eh hab wuh cummin ter um from de fambly property.

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**Who acts:** fuh eh own libbin · **What happens:** want · **To what, where:** um, eh

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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 (fuh eh own libbin), 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:pg76586:4:19
# text = Buh Bear, him tired lib wid eh farruh an eh fambly, an eh tell eh farruh eh guine way fuh mek eh own libbin, an eh want um fuh gem wuhebber eh hab wuh cummin ter um from de fambly property.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
5	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lib	lib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	eh	eh	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
9	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
18	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
19	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
20	guine	guine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
22	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
23	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	libbin	libbin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
30	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
31	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
33	gem	gem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	wuhebber	wuhebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	eh	eh	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	flat	_	_
36	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	wuh	wuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
38	cummin	cummin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	40	conj	_	_
43	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | infinitive | fuh eh own libbin *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot um=Theme |

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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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