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title: You ebber notus say Buh Elephunt yez all de time duh heng down, an e… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: You ebber notus say Buh Elephunt yez all de time duh heng down, an eh cant cock um up luk de tarruh creetuh? Who acts: ebber notus. 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 eve
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 7

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You ebber notus say Buh Elephunt yez all de time duh heng down, an eh cant cock um up luk de tarruh creetuh?

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**Who acts:** ebber notus · **What happens:** say down · **To what, where:** Buh

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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 (ebber notus), 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:pg76586:9:7
# text = You ebber notus say Buh Elephunt yez all de time duh heng down, an eh cant cock um up luk de tarruh creetuh?
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ebber	ebb	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	notus	notus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	Elephunt	Elephunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	yez	yez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	dep	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	heng	heng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	cant	cant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
19	um	um	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	punct	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	luk	luk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	flat:foreign	_	_
23	tarruh	tarruh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
24	creetuh	creetuh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say down** *speech: assert* | present | ebber notus | Buh |  |  | time | a eh cant cock *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent buh=Topic |

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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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