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title: Wen eh git back Buh Wolf say: “You bactize dat chillun een er hurry;… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen eh git back Buh Wolf say: “You bactize dat chillun een er hurry; wuh eh name?” Who acts: Wen, You. 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 159

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Wen eh git back Buh Wolf say: “You bactize dat chillun een er hurry; wuh eh name?”

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**Who acts:** Wen, You · **What happens:** say, bactize · **To what, where:** dat chillun · **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 (Wen, You), 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:pg76586:5:159
# text = Wen eh git back Buh Wolf say: “You bactize dat chillun een er hurry; wuh eh name?”
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	bactize	bactize	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | Wen |  |  |  |  | eh name *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bactize** *in a quote* | present | You | dat chillun |  |  |  | een er hurry *obl* | tree rules |

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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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