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title: Buh Tiger, him answer: “Me willin: me hongry; gimme de bread.” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Tiger, him answer: “Me willin: me hongry; gimme de bread.” Who acts: Buh. 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 27

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Buh Tiger, him answer: “Me willin: me hongry; gimme de bread.”

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** answer · **To what, where:** Me willin

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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), 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:pg76586:4:27
# text = Buh Tiger, him answer: “Me willin: me hongry; gimme de bread.”
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Tiger	Tiger	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	answer	answer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	compound	_	_
9	willin	willin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	conj	_	_
12	hongry	hongry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	gimme	gimme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	compound	_	_
16	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | Buh | Me willin  me |  |  |  | gimme *obl* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent willin=Eventuality |

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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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