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title: Buh Fox tell um say him yent know nuttne bout de ting, an eh try fuh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Fox tell um say him yent know nuttne bout de ting, an eh try fuh swade um no fuh go nigh Buh Lion. Who acts: Buh, yent, fuh. 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 61

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Buh Fox tell um say him yent know nuttne bout de ting, an eh try fuh swade um no fuh go nigh Buh Lion.

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**Who acts:** Buh, yent, fuh · **What happens:** tell, say, know, swade, go · **To what, where:** um, Buh, nuttne bout, Buh Lion · **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, yent, fuh), 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:pg76586:7:61
# text = Buh Fox tell um say him yent know nuttne bout de ting, an eh try fuh swade um no fuh go nigh Buh Lion.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	de	de	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
18	swade	swade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
19	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
23	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Buh | um |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Buh *not said here* | Buh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | present | yent | nuttne bout |  |  |  | de ting and a eh try | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bout=Stimulus |
| 4 | **swade** | infinitive | yent *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | no fuh | Buh Lion |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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