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title: Buh Wolf no question um no mo; but eh know say eh bin Buh Rabbit fuh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf no question um no mo; but eh know say eh bin Buh Rabbit fuh true, an eh fix plan fuh ketch um. Who acts: eh. 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 276

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Buh Wolf no question um no mo; but eh know say eh bin Buh Rabbit fuh true, an eh fix plan fuh ketch um.

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**Who acts:** eh · **What happens:** know, say · **To what, where:** eh bin, Wolf question · **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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eh), 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:pg76586:1:276
# text = Buh Wolf no question um no mo; but eh know say eh bin Buh Rabbit fuh true, an eh fix plan fuh ketch um.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	um	um	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	eh	eh	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
16	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
18	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	fix	fix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
25	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | eh bin |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bin=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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