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title: Buh Rabbit fool Buh Wolf so many time, an een sich diffrunt fashion,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit fool Buh Wolf so many time, an een sich diffrunt fashion, dat eh outdone wid um. Who acts: you, dat. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, 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 10, sentence 113

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Buh Rabbit fool Buh Wolf so many time, an een sich diffrunt fashion, dat eh outdone wid um.

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**Who acts:** you, dat · **What happens:** rabbit, outdo · **To what, where:** fool, wid um

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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 (you, dat), 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:pg76586:10:113
# text = Buh Rabbit fool Buh Wolf so many time, an een sich diffrunt fashion, dat eh outdone wid um.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	rabbit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	een	een	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	sich	sich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	diffrunt	diffrunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	outdone	outdo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rabbit** | imperative | you *not said here* | fool |  |  | time |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Location |
| 2 | **outdo** | participle | dat *not said here* | wid um |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot um=Theme |

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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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