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title: Buh Alligatur yeddy um berry well, but eh so bex say de Bud done fin… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Alligatur yeddy um berry well, but eh so bex say de Bud done fine out, an der talk eh secret, dat eh want fuh kill um sho. Who acts: bex, Buh um berry, 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 tr
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 28

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Buh Alligatur yeddy um berry well, but eh so bex say de Bud done fine out, an der talk eh secret, dat eh want fuh kill um sho.

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**Who acts:** bex, Buh um berry, eh · **What happens:** say, do out, want, kill · **To what, where:** de, um sho · **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 (bex, Buh um berry, 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:pg76586:5:28
# text = Buh Alligatur yeddy um berry well, but eh so bex say de Bud done fine out, an der talk eh secret, dat eh want fuh kill um sho.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	bex	bex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	Bud	Bud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
22	eh	eh	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	discourse	_	_
26	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	nsubj	_	_
27	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	_
29	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | bex | de |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent de=Topic |
| 2 | **do out** | past | Buh um berry but eh |  |  |  |  | a der talk eh secret *parataxis*; fine *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **want** | present | eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **kill** *not said to happen* | infinitive | eh *not said here* | um sho |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sho=Theme |

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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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