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title: De fire roll, an Buh Wolf feed um tell de tree bun down. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De fire roll, an Buh Wolf feed um tell de tree bun down. Who acts: Buh Wolf, De fire roll. 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 79

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De fire roll, an Buh Wolf feed um tell de tree bun down.

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**Who acts:** Buh Wolf, De fire roll · **What happens:** feed, tell · **To what, where:** um, de tree bun · **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 Wolf, De fire roll), 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:pg76586:9:79
# text = De fire roll, an Buh Wolf feed um tell de tree bun down.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bun	bun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | present | a Buh Wolf | um |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Recipient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | De fire roll | de tree bun |  |  |  | down *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bun=Recipient |

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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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