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title: Ebry time dat Buh Monkey mek motion fuh come down, de Dog show eh te… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ebry time dat Buh Monkey mek motion fuh come down, de Dog show eh teet an growl. Who acts: dat motion. 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 94

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Ebry time dat Buh Monkey mek motion fuh come down, de Dog show eh teet an growl.

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**Who acts:** dat motion · **What happens:** come down, show · **To what, where:** eh teet

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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 (dat motion), 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:pg76586:4:94
# text = Ebry time dat Buh Monkey mek motion fuh come down, de Dog show eh teet an growl.
1	Ebry	Ebry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	Monkey	Monkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	motion	motion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	de	de	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
14	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	teet	teet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	growl	growl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | infinitive | dat motion |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | present |  | eh teet |  |  |  | de Dog; a growl *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent teet=Recipient growl=Topic |

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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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