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title: Eh fool Buh Bear, an eh mek um bliebe say eh bin de rock wuh gib sic… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh fool Buh Bear, an eh mek um bliebe say eh bin de rock wuh gib sich er rich flaber ter de soup, wen de fac bin say de rock yent hab nuttne fuh do long um, but de tarruh ting wuh gone een de pot, dem duh de ting wuh mek de soup. Who acts: Eh fool, fac bin, de rock, de ting wuh. A sentence of «Negro
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 81

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Eh fool Buh Bear, an eh mek um bliebe say eh bin de rock wuh gib sich er rich flaber ter de soup, wen de fac bin say de rock yent hab nuttne fuh do long um, but de tarruh ting wuh gone een de pot, dem duh de ting wuh mek de soup.

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**Who acts:** Eh fool, fac bin, de rock, de ting wuh · **What happens:** say, gib, do, go · **To what, where:** eh bin, sich, wen, long um, een pot · **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 (Eh fool, fac bin, de rock, de ting wuh), 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:pg76586:6:81
# text = Eh fool Buh Bear, an eh mek um bliebe say eh bin de rock wuh gib sich er rich flaber ter de soup, wen de fac bin say de rock yent hab nuttne fuh do long um, but de tarruh ting wuh gone een de pot, dem duh de ting wuh mek de soup.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bliebe	bliebe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
15	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
17	gib	gib	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
18	sich	sich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	flaber	flaber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	compound	_	_
24	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
27	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	flat:foreign	_	_
28	fac	fac	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
31	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	compound	_	_
32	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
33	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
34	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
37	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
38	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	45	compound	_	_
43	tarruh	tarruh	INTJ	UH	_	45	discourse	_	_
44	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	wuh	wuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	advcl	_	_
47	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	49	amod	_	_
48	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	47	flat	_	_
49	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	_
52	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	54	discourse	_	_
53	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	_
55	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	58	discourse	_	_
56	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
57	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	flat	_	_
58	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | Eh fool and a eh mek um bliebe | eh bin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gib** | infinitive |  | sich |  |  |  | ter de soup *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | fac bin | wen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | present | de rock and yent nuttne fuh | long um |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Eventuality |
| 5 | **go** | participle | de ting wuh | een pot and dem and de ting |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pot=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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