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title: Wen Buh Wolf tek eh holt fuh pull Buh Porpus outer de water, den Buh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen Buh Wolf tek eh holt fuh pull Buh Porpus outer de water, den Buh Porpus wus teh mek eh flut an juk Buh Wolf een de ribber an drown um. Who acts: Wen, Wolf de ribber. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, with its dep
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 87

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Wen Buh Wolf tek eh holt fuh pull Buh Porpus outer de water, den Buh Porpus wus teh mek eh flut an juk Buh Wolf een de ribber an drown um.

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**Who acts:** Wen, Wolf de ribber · **What happens:** pull, drown · **To what, where:** Buh, um

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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 (Wen, Wolf de ribber), 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:pg76586:7:87
# text = Wen Buh Wolf tek eh holt fuh pull Buh Porpus outer de water, den Buh Porpus wus teh mek eh flut an juk Buh Wolf een de ribber an drown um.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	holt	holt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	_
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	pull	pull	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	list	_	_
17	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	wus	wus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
19	teh	teh	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	eh	eh	X	GW	_	8	obj	_	_
22	flut	flut	X	NN	_	21	goeswith	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
24	juk	juk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
27	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	flat	_	_
28	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	ribber	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
32	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | infinitive | Wen  eh holt | Buh  Buh and den |  |  |  | wus *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drown** | infinitive | a Wolf de ribber *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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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