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title: Den Buh Bear gen um some, an eh eat um. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Bear gen um some, an eh eat um. Who acts: 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 28

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Den Buh Bear gen um some, an eh eat um.

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**Who acts:** eh · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** um, Den gen 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 (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:pg76586:4:28
# text = Den Buh Bear gen um some, an eh eat um.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | infinitive | a eh | um |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient |

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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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