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title: At las Buh Rabbit tell Buh Wolf: “Dont lick me no mo. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: At las Buh Rabbit tell Buh Wolf: “Dont lick me no mo. Who acts: Buh Rabbit, Dont. 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 353

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At las Buh Rabbit tell Buh Wolf: “Dont lick me no mo.

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**Who acts:** Buh Rabbit, Dont · **What happens:** tell, lick · **To what, where:** Buh Wolf, Buh Rabbit · **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 (Buh Rabbit, Dont), 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:pg76586:1:353
# text = At las Buh Rabbit tell Buh Wolf: “Dont lick me no mo.
1	At	at	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	las	las	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Dont	Dont	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lick	lick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Buh Rabbit |  | Buh Wolf |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wolf=Recipient |
| 2 | **lick** *in a quote* | infinitive | Dont | Buh Rabbit *= rabbit* |  |  |  | no mo *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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