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title: Befo dem part Buh Tiger tell Buh Bear way him house yiz, and gree fu… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Befo dem part Buh Tiger tell Buh Bear way him house yiz, and gree fuh rastle long um de nex mornin. Who acts: Befo, dem part, part, fuh. 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 o
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 29

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Befo dem part Buh Tiger tell Buh Bear way him house yiz, and gree fuh rastle long um de nex mornin.

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**Who acts:** Befo, dem part, part, fuh · **What happens:** part, tell, yiz, gree, rastle · **To what, where:** long um · **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 (Befo, dem part, part, fuh), 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:pg76586:4:29
# text = Befo dem part Buh Tiger tell Buh Bear way him house yiz, and gree fuh rastle long um de nex mornin.
1	Befo	Befo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	yiz	yiz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	gree	gree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
16	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	rastle	rastle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	conj	_	_
21	nex	nex	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **part** |  | Befo |  |  |  |  | Buh *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | dem part |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **yiz** |  | part |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **gree** | infinitive | dem part *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **rastle** | present | fuh | long 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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