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title: Buh Wolf nebber did fine out say Buh Rabbit bin fix dis plan fuh pit… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf nebber did fine out say Buh Rabbit bin fix dis plan fuh pit um een de Buckra man han, an eh tell Buh Rabbit heap er tenky fuh de faber wuh him bin done ter um. Who acts: Buh nebber, Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Ope
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 109

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Buh Wolf nebber did fine out say Buh Rabbit bin fix dis plan fuh pit um een de Buckra man han, an eh tell Buh Rabbit heap er tenky fuh de faber wuh him bin done ter um.

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**Who acts:** Buh nebber, Buh · **What happens:** say, fix, do · **To what, where:** dis plan, bin · **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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh nebber, 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:pg76586:10:109
# text = Buh Wolf nebber did fine out say Buh Rabbit bin fix dis plan fuh pit um een de Buckra man han, an eh tell Buh Rabbit heap er tenky fuh de faber wuh him bin done ter um.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
11	fix	fix	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	_
18	de	de	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Buckra	Buckra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
26	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	er	er	PRON	GW	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind|Typo=Yes	25	iobj	_	_
30	tenky	tenky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	compound	_	_
33	faber	faber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
34	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	goeswith	_	_
36	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
37	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
38	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Buh nebber |  |  |  |  | a eh tell  er  um *parataxis*; fine, out *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fix** | present | Buh | dis plan |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent plan=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | participle |  | bin *not said here* |  |  |  | ter um | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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