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title: Buh Monkey tell eh wife eh wonder wuh dis ting duh wuh ebry body bin… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Monkey tell eh wife eh wonder wuh dis ting duh wuh ebry body bin a talk bout, an wuh dem all duh call trouble. Who acts: Buh, wife eh. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 59

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Buh Monkey tell eh wife eh wonder wuh dis ting duh wuh ebry body bin a talk bout, an wuh dem all duh call trouble.

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**Who acts:** Buh, wife eh · **What happens:** tell, wonder, bin · **To what, where:** eh, dis ting, talk bout · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, wife eh), 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:pg76586:4:59
# text = Buh Monkey tell eh wife eh wonder wuh dis ting duh wuh ebry body bin a talk bout, an wuh dem all duh call trouble.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Monkey	Monkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wonder	wonder	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
9	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
12	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
13	ebry	ebry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	bin	bin	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	appos	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
22	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
24	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Buh | eh |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent eh=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | wife eh | dis ting |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bin** | infinitive |  | a talk bout |  |  |  | ebry body *compound* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bout=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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