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title: Eh see by de track say Buh Elephunt bin do dat. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh see by de track say Buh Elephunt bin do dat. Who acts: Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, 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 9, sentence 19

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Eh see by de track say Buh Elephunt bin do dat.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** see, say, do · **To what, where:** dat · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh), 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:pg76586:9:19
# text = Eh see by de track say Buh Elephunt bin do dat.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	Elephunt	Elephunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | by de track | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | present | Buh | dat |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=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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