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title: Befo eh part compny wid Buh Porpus, eh tell um how Buh Wolf bin ketc… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Befo eh part compny wid Buh Porpus, eh tell um how Buh Wolf bin ketch um an tie um an lick um, how eh bex long Buh Wolf, an how eh want Buh Porpus fuh help um fuh punish Buh Wolf. Who acts: Befo, eh, Buh fuh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., J
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 85

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Befo eh part compny wid Buh Porpus, eh tell um how Buh Wolf bin ketch um an tie um an lick um, how eh bex long Buh Wolf, an how eh want Buh Porpus fuh help um fuh punish Buh Wolf.

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**Who acts:** Befo, eh, Buh fuh · **What happens:** eh, tell, want, help, um, punish · **To what, where:** part compny wid, um, Buh Wolf · **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 (Befo, eh, Buh 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:pg76586:7:85
# text = Befo eh part compny wid Buh Porpus, eh tell um how Buh Wolf bin ketch um an tie um an lick um, how eh bex long Buh Wolf, an how eh want Buh Porpus fuh help um fuh punish Buh Wolf.
1	Befo	Befo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	compny	compny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	tie	tie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	lick	lick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
26	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	bex	bex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
34	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	nsubj	_	_
35	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
36	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
37	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	flat	_	_
38	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
40	um	um	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
41	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	40	discourse	_	_
42	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
43	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eh** | past | Befo | part compny wid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Befo *not said here* | um |  |  |  | Buh ketch um *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient |
| 3 | **want** | present | eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **help** | present | Buh fuh |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **um** | infinitive | Buh fuh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **punish** | infinitive | Buh fuh *not said here* | Buh Wolf |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient |

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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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