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title: Buh Bear say: “Berry well: me guine come ter you house by de time de… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Bear say: “Berry well: me guine come ter you house by de time de sun git up, an you will haffer rastle long me.” Who acts: Buh, 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 o
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 30

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Buh Bear say: “Berry well: me guine come ter you house by de time de sun git up, an you will haffer rastle long me.”

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**Who acts:** Buh, you · **What happens:** say, come up, rastle · **To what, where:** Berry, you, 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, 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:pg76586:4:30
# text = Buh Bear say: “Berry well: me guine come ter you house by de time de sun git up, an you will haffer rastle long me.”
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	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Berry	Berry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	ter	ter	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	vocative	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	compound	_	_
19	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	haffer	haffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	rastle	rastle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
28	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	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 | Berry |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come up** *in a quote* | present | Buh | you |  |  | time | house *vocative*; de sun git *parataxis*; ter *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme |
| 3 | **rastle** *in a quote* | future | you | Buh |  |  |  | haffer *nsubj*; long *property* | 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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