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title: De ting broke Buh Coon leg, an eh hot um berry bad, but eh faid fuh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De ting broke Buh Coon leg, an eh hot um berry bad, but eh faid fuh holler, case, ef eh did holler, eh know Buh Lion gwine run day an kill um. Who acts: De ting, eh, Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, with its de
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 45

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De ting broke Buh Coon leg, an eh hot um berry bad, but eh faid fuh holler, case, ef eh did holler, eh know Buh Lion gwine run day an kill um.

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**Who acts:** De ting, eh, Buh · **What happens:** break, berry, know, run · **To what, where:** Buh leg · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De ting, eh, 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:pg76586:7:45
# text = De ting broke Buh Coon leg, an eh hot um berry bad, but eh faid fuh holler, case, ef eh did holler, eh know Buh Lion gwine run day an kill um.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
13	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	faid	faid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
25	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl	_	_
26	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	_
29	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
30	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	_
32	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	list	_	_
33	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
34	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | De ting | Buh leg |  |  |  | eh faid fuh holler and case *obl* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient |
| 2 | **berry** |  | eh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **run** | present | Buh  gwine |  |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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