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title: Buh Lion try fuh fine out wuh Buh Goat duh eat. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Lion try fuh fine out wuh Buh Goat duh eat. Who acts: 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 7

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Buh Lion try fuh fine out wuh Buh Goat duh eat.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** try out, eat

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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), 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:pg76586:4:7
# text = Buh Lion try fuh fine out wuh Buh Goat duh eat.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fuh	fuh	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
7	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
10	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try out** | present | Buh |  |  |  |  | Buh Goat *parataxis*; fine *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **eat** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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