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title: Buh Bear, him shame um, an mek um leff eh house. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Bear, him shame um, an mek um leff eh house. Who acts: Bear. 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 49

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Buh Bear, him shame um, an mek um leff eh house.

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**Who acts:** Bear · **What happens:** shame · **To what, where:** um, Buh Bear

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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 (Bear), 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:pg76586:4:49
# text = Buh Bear, him shame um, an mek um leff eh house.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shame	shame	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
12	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shame** | present | Bear | um |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus um=Experiencer |

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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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