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title: Him do all dis, an yet him stay fren wid Buh Lion, Buh Fox, an wid B… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Him do all dis, an yet him stay fren wid Buh Lion, Buh Fox, an wid Buh Coon fambly. Who acts: soldier. 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 clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 77

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Him do all dis, an yet him stay fren wid Buh Lion, Buh Fox, an wid Buh Coon fambly.

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**Who acts:** soldier · **What happens:** do, stay · **To what, where:** dis, fren wid Buh Lion

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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 (soldier), 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:pg76586:7:77
# text = Him do all dis, an yet him stay fren wid Buh Lion, Buh Fox, an wid Buh Coon fambly.
1	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	nmod	_	_
7	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	fren	fren	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
22	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | soldier | all dis  an |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dis=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stay** | present | soldier | fren wid Buh Lion and Buh Fox and a wid Buh Coon |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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