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title: Nex day Buh Bear come gen same time, and Buh Tiger meet um, an dem r… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nex day Buh Bear come gen same time, and Buh Tiger meet um, an dem rastle, an Buh Bear fling um an hit um side er de head, same place way eh bin knock um de day befo. Who acts: Buh Tiger, er, eh bin. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones,
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 34

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Nex day Buh Bear come gen same time, and Buh Tiger meet um, an dem rastle, an Buh Bear fling um an hit um side er de head, same place way eh bin knock um de day befo.

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**Who acts:** Buh Tiger, er, eh bin · **What happens:** come, meet, rastle, head, knock · **To what, where:** um, Buh Bear fling, um side

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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 Tiger, er, eh bin), 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:pg76586:4:34
# text = Nex day Buh Bear come gen same time, and Buh Tiger meet um, an dem rastle, an Buh Bear fling um an hit um side er de head, same place way eh bin knock um de day befo.
1	Nex	Nex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	rastle	rastle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	fling	fling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	um	um	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
29	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	nsubj	_	_
30	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	29	flat:foreign	_	_
31	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
36	eh	eh	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	knock	knock	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
39	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
40	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present |  |  |  |  | day; time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | present | Buh Tiger | um and a dem |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **rastle** | infinitive | Buh Tiger *not said here* | a Buh Bear fling um a um side and same place way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **head** |  | er | a um side *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **knock** | present | eh bin | um and de day befo |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: 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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