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title: De six mornin, wen Buh Bear knock ter Buh Tiger do, Buh Tiger yent c… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De six mornin, wen Buh Bear knock ter Buh Tiger do, Buh Tiger yent come out. Who acts: De six mornin, 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 38

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De six mornin, wen Buh Bear knock ter Buh Tiger do, Buh Tiger yent come out.

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**Who acts:** De six mornin, Buh · **What happens:** knock, do, come out · **To what, where:** ter, Tiger yent

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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 (De six mornin, 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:pg76586:4:38
# text = De six mornin, wen Buh Bear knock ter Buh Tiger do, Buh Tiger yent come out.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | infinitive | De six mornin and wen | ter |  |  |  | Buh *nsubj* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ter=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | present | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come out** | present | De six mornin and wen *not said here* | Tiger yent |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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