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title: Buh Bear say: “Buh Tiger, ef you eat any er dis yer bread, you haffe… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Bear say: “Buh Tiger, ef you eat any er dis yer bread, you haffer rastle long me fuh sebbn year.” Who acts: Buh, Buh Tiger, you. 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 ev
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 26

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Buh Bear say: “Buh Tiger, ef you eat any er dis yer bread, you haffer rastle long me fuh sebbn year.”

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**Who acts:** Buh, Buh Tiger, you · **What happens:** say, eat, rastle · **To what, where:** er dis, Buh · **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, Buh Tiger, you), 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:pg76586:4:26
# text = Buh Bear say: “Buh Tiger, ef you eat any er dis yer bread, you haffer rastle long me fuh sebbn year.”
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	haffer	haffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	rastle	rastle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
24	sebbn	sebbn	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | Buh Tiger | any er dis |  |  | year | you *nsubj*; yer's bread *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rastle** *in a quote* | present | you | Buh |  |  |  |  | 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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