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title: Buh Deer answer: “Me want fuh come een fuh git me bittle wuh me bin… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Deer answer: “Me want fuh come een fuh git me bittle wuh me bin pit way fuh me fuh eat der winter.” Who acts: Deer. 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 85

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Buh Deer answer: “Me want fuh come een fuh git me bittle wuh me bin pit way fuh me fuh eat der winter.”

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**Who acts:** Deer · **What happens:** answer, want, come, bin, eat · **To what, where:** een fuh git, pit way · **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 (Deer), 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:pg76586:5:85
# text = Buh Deer answer: “Me want fuh come een fuh git me bittle wuh me bin pit way fuh me fuh eat der winter.”
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	Deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answer	answer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
14	bittle	bittle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
15	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
22	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
23	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | Deer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Deer |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **come** *not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | Deer *not said here* | een fuh git  me |  |  |  | bittle *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location git=Theme |
| 4 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | Deer | pit way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | Deer *not said here* |  |  |  | winter |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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