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title: Buh Wolf mek answer: “Ef I bun you up, ef I knock you brains out, yo… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf mek answer: “Ef I bun you up, ef I knock you brains out, you guine dead too quick. Who acts: Buh Rabbit, Buh mek answer. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 357

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Buh Wolf mek answer: “Ef I bun you up, ef I knock you brains out, you guine dead too quick.

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**Who acts:** Buh Rabbit, Buh mek answer · **What happens:** bun up, knock out · **To what, where:** you

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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, Buh mek answer), 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:pg76586:1:357
# text = Buh Wolf mek answer: “Ef I bun you up, ef I knock you brains out, you guine dead too quick.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	mek	mek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	bun	bun	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	knock	knock	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bun up** *in a quote* | present | Buh Rabbit *= rabbit* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **knock out** *in a quote* | present | Buh mek answer | you |  |  |  | Ef and ef *nsubj*; I *nsubj*; out *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent you=Patient |

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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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