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title: Dem drink tell dem drunk, an den Buh Fox slip way wid Buh Coon body… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem drink tell dem drunk, an den Buh Fox slip way wid Buh Coon body ter eh wife house, an him an eh wife bury um een de gaden same night onbeknowinst ter ebry body. Who acts: Dem drink, den, eh wife, um. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jo
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 72

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Dem drink tell dem drunk, an den Buh Fox slip way wid Buh Coon body ter eh wife house, an him an eh wife bury um een de gaden same night onbeknowinst ter ebry body.

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**Who acts:** Dem drink, den, eh wife, um · **What happens:** tell, slip, bury, night · **To what, where:** dem drunk, way, Den · **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 (Dem drink, den, eh wife, um), 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:pg76586:7:72
# text = Dem drink tell dem drunk, an den Buh Fox slip way wid Buh Coon body ter eh wife house, an him an eh wife bury um een de gaden same night onbeknowinst ter ebry body.
1	Dem	dem	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	drunk	drunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	conj	_	_
18	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	bury	bury	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	um	um	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	nsubj	_	_
29	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	flat:foreign	_	_
30	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	flat:foreign	_	_
31	gaden	gaden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	onbeknowinst	onbeknowinst	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
35	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	ebry	ebry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Dem drink | dem drunk |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent drunk=Recipient |
| 2 | **slip** | present | a den | way |  |  |  | wid Buh body *obl* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
| 3 | **bury** | present | a eh wife | Den |  |  |  | ter ebry body; onbeknowinst *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **night** |  | um |  |  |  |  |  | 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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