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title: Buh Wolf, him an eh wife an eh chillun joy um berry much. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf, him an eh wife an eh chillun joy um berry much. Who acts: eh wife. 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 93

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Buh Wolf, him an eh wife an eh chillun joy um berry much.

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**Who acts:** eh wife · **What happens:** berry · **To what, where:** wen

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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 (eh wife), 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:pg76586:7:93
# text = Buh Wolf, him an eh wife an eh chillun joy um berry much.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
13	berry	berry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **berry** | present | a eh wife  a eh joy um | wen |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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