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title: Buh Wolf call ter um an tell um fuh hurry. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf call ter um an tell um fuh hurry. Who acts: 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 131

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Buh Wolf call ter um an tell um fuh hurry.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** call, um, tell · **To what, where:** ter, an, um · **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 (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:pg76586:5:131
# text = Buh Wolf call ter um an tell um fuh hurry.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	um	um	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	obj	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | Buh | ter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **um** | infinitive | Buh *not said here* | an |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Buh *not said here* | um |  |  |  | fuh hurry *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent um=Recipient hurry=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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