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title: “Berry well,” answer Buh Wolf, “dont you loss no time, fuh dis crap… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Berry well,” answer Buh Wolf, “dont you loss no time, fuh dis crap want wuk berry bad.” Who acts: you, fuh dis crap. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5, 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 5, sentence 119

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“Berry well,” answer Buh Wolf, “dont you loss no time, fuh dis crap want wuk berry bad.”

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**Who acts:** you, fuh dis crap · **What happens:** answer, want · **To what, where:** Berry, wuk berry · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fuh dis crap), 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:pg76586:5:119
# text = “Berry well,” answer Buh Wolf, “dont you loss no time, fuh dis crap want wuk berry bad.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Berry	Berry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
6	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	dont	dont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	appos	_	_
13	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	crap	crap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | Berry |  |  |  | Buh loss *obj*; well *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent loss=Eventuality |
| 2 | **want** *in a quote* | present | fuh dis crap | wuk berry |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot berry=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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