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title: Buh Fox, him answer: “Yes, me berry glad fuh git um, an heap er tenk… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Fox, him answer: “Yes, me berry glad fuh git um, an heap er tenky ter you too.” Who acts: Buh. 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 28

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Buh Fox, him answer: “Yes, me berry glad fuh git um, an heap er tenky ter you too.”

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** answer, berry · **To what, where:** glad fuh git um · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh), 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:pg76586:6:28
# text = Buh Fox, him answer: “Yes, me berry glad fuh git um, an heap er tenky ter you too.”
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	answer	answer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	berry	berry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	tenky	tenky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	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 | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **berry** *in a quote* | present | Buh | glad fuh git um and a heap |  |  |  | you *obl* | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Location |

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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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