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title: Eh bex long de Buckra wuh gie um task, an mek um ten ter um. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh bex long de Buckra wuh gie um task, an mek um ten ter um. Who acts: Buckra. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, 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 6, sentence 113

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Eh bex long de Buckra wuh gie um task, an mek um ten ter um.

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**Who acts:** Buckra · **What happens:** gie · **To what, where:** um task

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buckra), 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:pg76586:6:113
# text = Eh bex long de Buckra wuh gie um task, an mek um ten ter um.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	bex	bex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	ADP	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	Buckra	Buckra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	gie	gie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	_
15	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gie** | infinitive | Buckra | um task |  |  |  | ter um | 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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