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title: De Bud fly down dist by Buh Alligatur, an eh sing gen: “Yaller-belly… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Bud fly down dist by Buh Alligatur, an eh sing gen: “Yaller-belly Alligatur ferry me ober.” Who acts: De, Yaller belly. 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 27

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De Bud fly down dist by Buh Alligatur, an eh sing gen: “Yaller-belly Alligatur ferry me ober.”

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**Who acts:** De, Yaller belly · **What happens:** fly down, ferry · **To what, where:** dist, ALLIGATUR

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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 (De, Yaller belly), 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:pg76586:5:27
# text = De Bud fly down dist by Buh Alligatur, an eh sing gen: “Yaller-belly Alligatur ferry me ober.”
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Bud	Bud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	fly	fly	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	dist	dist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Yaller	Yaller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
20	ferry	ferry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	ober	ober	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly down** | infinitive | De | dist |  |  |  | by Buh | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent dist=Theme by buh=Location |
| 2 | **ferry** *in a quote* | infinitive | Yaller belly | ALLIGATUR |  |  |  | ober *obj* | vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme ober=Result |

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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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