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title: Buh Wolf push um so tight eh mek um quit de groun an tek ter one pus… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf push um so tight eh mek um quit de groun an tek ter one pussimmon tree. Who acts: Buh, mek um. 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 49

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Buh Wolf push um so tight eh mek um quit de groun an tek ter one pussimmon tree.

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**Who acts:** Buh, mek um · **What happens:** push, quit · **To what, where:** um, de groun

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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, mek um), 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:pg76586:9:49
# text = Buh Wolf push um so tight eh mek um quit de groun an tek ter one pussimmon tree.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	eh	eh	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	quit	quit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
12	groun	groun	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	obj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	pussimmon	pussimmon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | present | Buh | um |  |  |  | tight *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme |
| 2 | **quit** | past | mek um | de groun |  |  |  | a tek ter  one pussimmon tree *obj* | tree rules |

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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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