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title: Wid dat, Buh Cat an Buh Rat, dem leff, an Buh Fox, wuh bin de jedge,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wid dat, Buh Cat an Buh Rat, dem leff, an Buh Fox, wuh bin de jedge, eat all de cheese. 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 50

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Wid dat, Buh Cat an Buh Rat, dem leff, an Buh Fox, wuh bin de jedge, eat all de cheese.

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**What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** de cheese, Wid dat

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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: 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:pg76586:5:50
# text = Wid dat, Buh Cat an Buh Rat, dem leff, an Buh Fox, wuh bin de jedge, eat all de cheese.
1	Wid	Wid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Cat	Cat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
18	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	flat:foreign	_	_
20	jedge	jedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
24	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | infinitive |  | all de cheese |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=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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