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title: Buh Elephunt mek answer an say him yent do um; him yent know nuttne… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Elephunt mek answer an say him yent do um; him yent know nuttne bout um. Who acts: Elephunt, yent. 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 21

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Buh Elephunt mek answer an say him yent do um; him yent know nuttne bout um.

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**Who acts:** Elephunt, yent · **What happens:** answer, say, do, know · **To what, where:** Elephunt, um, bout um · **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 (Elephunt, yent), 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:pg76586:9:21
# text = Buh Elephunt mek answer an say him yent do um; him yent know nuttne bout um.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	Elephunt	Elephunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	answer	answer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nsubj	_	_
14	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
15	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | Elephunt |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | Elephunt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present | yent | um |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Eventuality |
| 4 | **know** | present | yent | bout um |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer um=Stimulus |

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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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