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title: Buh Lion, him say him gwine fine out who de tief yiz, an who de man… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Lion, him say him gwine fine out who de tief yiz, an who de man wuh cut eh head off an skin um. Who acts: Buh, de tief yiz. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 52

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Buh Lion, him say him gwine fine out who de tief yiz, an who de man wuh cut eh head off an skin um.

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**Who acts:** Buh, de tief yiz · **What happens:** say, yiz, man · **To what, where:** eh · **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 (Buh, de tief yiz), 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:pg76586:7:52
# text = Buh Lion, him say him gwine fine out who de tief yiz, an who de man wuh cut eh head off an skin um.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
12	tief	tief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	yiz	yiz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	compound	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
20	cut	cut	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	18	appos	_	_
21	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | Buh | eh |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 2 | **yiz** |  |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **man** |  | de tief yiz and a de man |  |  |  |  |  | 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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