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title: Buh Bear hole um gen an eh trow um berry easy, an den eh box um gen… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Bear hole um gen an eh trow um berry easy, an den eh box um gen in de same ole place sider eh head, way eh bin a knock um befo, an wuh swell. Who acts: Buh um gen, way. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4, with its 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 44

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Buh Bear hole um gen an eh trow um berry easy, an den eh box um gen in de same ole place sider eh head, way eh bin a knock um befo, an wuh swell.

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**Who acts:** Buh um gen, way · **What happens:** trow, bin · **To what, where:** um berry, um befo

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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 um gen, way), 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:pg76586:4:44
# text = Buh Bear hole um gen an eh trow um berry easy, an den eh box um gen in de same ole place sider eh head, way eh bin a knock um befo, an wuh swell.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	trow	trow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
14	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
20	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
22	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	sider	sider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
29	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	wuh	wuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	swell	swell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trow** | infinitive | Buh um gen | um berry |  |  |  | a eh *nsubj*; a um gen in de same ole eh head *parataxis*; easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bin** | present | way *not said here* | a um befo |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent befo=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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