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title: Buh Wolf quire: “How you gwine do um?” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf quire: “How you gwine do um?” Who acts: you. 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 98

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Buh Wolf quire: “How you gwine do um?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** gwine, do · **To what, where:** um, Wolf quire

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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 (you), 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:pg76586:7:98
# text = Buh Wolf quire: “How you gwine do um?”
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	quire	quire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gwine	gwine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gwine** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Eventuality |

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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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