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title: Buh Lion bin a hunt, an eh spy Buh Goat duh leddown topper er big ro… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Lion bin a hunt, an eh spy Buh Goat duh leddown topper er big rock duh wuk eh mout an der chaw. 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 3

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Buh Lion bin a hunt, an eh spy Buh Goat duh leddown topper er big rock duh wuk eh mout an der chaw.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** bin · **To what, where:** hunt

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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:pg76586:4:3
# text = Buh Lion bin a hunt, an eh spy Buh Goat duh leddown topper er big rock duh wuk eh mout an der chaw.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	spy	spy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
13	leddown	leddown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	er	er	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
21	mout	mout	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	chaw	chaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | Buh | a hunt and a eh spy |  |  |  | leddown topper *obl* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hunt=Theme |

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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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