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title: Eh gone een Buh Wolf house, eh tek down de pan gen, an eh eat mona h… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh gone een Buh Wolf house, eh tek down de pan gen, an eh eat mona half de butter. Who acts: Eh. 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 142

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Eh gone een Buh Wolf house, eh tek down de pan gen, an eh eat mona half de butter.

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**Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** go, tek down, eat · **To what, where:** een Buh house, de pan gen, mona half

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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), 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:pg76586:5:142
# text = Eh gone een Buh Wolf house, eh tek down de pan gen, an eh eat mona half de butter.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	tek	tek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	mona	mona	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	17	obj	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	flat:foreign	_	_
21	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	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 | **go** | participle | Eh | een Buh house |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location house=Theme |
| 2 | **tek down** | infinitive | Eh *not said here* | de pan gen and a eh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | infinitive | Eh *not said here* | mona half and butter |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient |

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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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