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title: Eh seem berry merry, an wen Buh Wolf ax um ef he done bactize de chi… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh seem berry merry, an wen Buh Wolf ax um ef he done bactize de chile, eh say yes. Who acts: Eh, Buh. 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 123

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Eh seem berry merry, an wen Buh Wolf ax um ef he done bactize de chile, eh say yes.

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**Who acts:** Eh, Buh · **What happens:** seem, ef, do, say · **To what, where:** berry, wen, bactize · **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 (Eh, 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:pg76586:5:123
# text = Eh seem berry merry, an wen Buh Wolf ax um ef he done bactize de chile, eh say yes.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	bactize	bactize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	de	de	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	chile	chile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
20	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
21	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | Eh | berry and a wen |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme berry=Attribute |
| 2 | **ef** |  | Buh | a wen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past | eh | bactize |  |  |  | de chile | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bactize=Eventuality |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Eh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=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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