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title: Buh Wolf, him well please, an eh say him an eh fambly gwine come wid… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf, him well please, an eh say him an eh fambly gwine come wid pledjur. Who acts: Buh, eh. 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 90

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Buh Wolf, him well please, an eh say him an eh fambly gwine come wid pledjur.

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**Who acts:** Buh, eh · **What happens:** say, come · **To what, where:** wen, wid pledjur · **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, eh), 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:pg76586:7:90
# text = Buh Wolf, him well please, an eh say him an eh fambly gwine come wid pledjur.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
6	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
17	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	pledjur	pledjur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Buh  wen | wen |  |  |  | a eh *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | a eh  gwine | wid pledjur |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pledjur=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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