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title: Buh Rabbit say: “Do Buh Wolf, bun me: broke me neck, but dont trow m… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit say: “Do Buh Wolf, bun me: broke me neck, but dont trow me in de brier patch. Who acts: Buh. 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 359

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Buh Rabbit say: “Do Buh Wolf, bun me: broke me neck, but dont trow me in de brier patch.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** say, do, break, trow · **To what, where:** Buh, de brier patch · **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), 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:pg76586:1:359
# text = Buh Rabbit say: “Do Buh Wolf, bun me: broke me neck, but dont trow me in de brier patch.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bun	bun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	dont	dont	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	dep	_	_
19	trow	trow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	brier	brier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Buh |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buh=Eventuality |
| 3 | **break** *in a quote* | past |  | Buh |  |  |  | neck *obj* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Patient neck=Result |
| 4 | **trow** *in a quote* | infinitive | Buh *not said here* | Buh |  | de brier patch |  |  | 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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