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title: But een er leely while Buh Porpus sorter hump eh back an flut eh tai… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: But een er leely while Buh Porpus sorter hump eh back an flut eh tail, an yuh Buh Wolf come fuh de water. Who acts: an. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8, 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 8, sentence 9

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But een er leely while Buh Porpus sorter hump eh back an flut eh tail, an yuh Buh Wolf come fuh de water.

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**Who acts:** an · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** de water, een

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (an), 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:pg76586:8:9
# text = But een er leely while Buh Porpus sorter hump eh back an flut eh tail, an yuh Buh Wolf come fuh de water.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	een	een	NUM	CD	Abbr=Yes|NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	leely	leely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	flut	flut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	nsubj	_	_
18	yuh	yuh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
19	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	vocative	_	_
20	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	compound	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | an | de water |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=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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