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title: Soon es eh ketch eh bref eh say: “Buh Wolf, wuh you bin do long dem… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon es eh ketch eh bref eh say: “Buh Wolf, wuh you bin do long dem Cooter agg? Who acts: es, you. 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 41

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Soon es eh ketch eh bref eh say: “Buh Wolf, wuh you bin do long dem Cooter agg?

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**Who acts:** es, you · **What happens:** say, bin, do · **To what, where:** Buh Wolf, long Cooter agg · **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 (es, 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:pg76586:9:41
# text = Soon es eh ketch eh bref eh say: “Buh Wolf, wuh you bin do long dem Cooter agg?
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
2	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bref	bref	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	agg	agg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | es  eh bref eh | Buh Wolf |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* | long Cooter agg |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agg=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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