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title: Buh Bear, him berry disappint; but wen eh see eh yent guine git nutt… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Bear, him berry disappint; but wen eh see eh yent guine git nuttne mo, eh gree fuh tek um. Who acts: Buh, wen eh, eh. 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 22

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Buh Bear, him berry disappint; but wen eh see eh yent guine git nuttne mo, eh gree fuh tek um.

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**Who acts:** Buh, wen eh, eh · **What happens:** berry, see, gree · **To what, where:** disappint, eh, tek um

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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, wen eh, eh), 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:pg76586:4:22
# text = Buh Bear, him berry disappint; but wen eh see eh yent guine git nuttne mo, eh gree fuh tek um.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	berry	berry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	disappint	disappint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	eh	eh	X	GW	_	11	obj	_	_
13	yent	yent	X	JJ	_	12	goeswith	_	_
14	guine	guine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	gree	gree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
22	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **berry** | present | Buh | disappint |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disappint=Location |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | wen eh | eh |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eh=Stimulus |
| 3 | **gree** | present | eh | tek um |  |  |  |  | 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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