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title: Soon a mornin Buh Bear gone ter Buh Tiger house an knock ter de do. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon a mornin Buh Bear gone ter Buh Tiger house an knock ter de do. Who acts: knock ter. 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 31

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Soon a mornin Buh Bear gone ter Buh Tiger house an knock ter de do.

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**Who acts:** knock ter · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** gone ter Tiger house

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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 (knock ter), 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:pg76586:4:31
# text = Soon a mornin Buh Bear gone ter Buh Tiger house an knock ter de do.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	ter	ter	X	FW	_	10	compound	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | a knock ter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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