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title: Buh Wolf see Buh Rabbit track, but eh couldnt ketch um duh tief de w… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf see Buh Rabbit track, but eh couldnt ketch um duh tief de water. Who acts: Buh, ketch um. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1, 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 1, sentence 266

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Buh Wolf see Buh Rabbit track, but eh couldnt ketch um duh tief de water.

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**Who acts:** Buh, ketch um · **What happens:** see, tief · **To what, where:** Buh Rabbit track, de water

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh, ketch 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:pg76586:1:266
# text = Buh Wolf see Buh Rabbit track, but eh couldnt ketch um duh tief de water.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	tief	tief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	compound	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Buh | Buh Rabbit track |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer track=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tief** |  | eh ketch um | de water |  |  |  |  | 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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