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title: Buh Wolf, him hire edder people fuh wuk plan fuh git de better er Bu… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf, him hire edder people fuh wuk plan fuh git de better er Buh Rabbit an pit um een eh power, but, bless you soul! dem fail too, an Buh Rabbit, him go clear. Who acts: Buh, um. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 115

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Buh Wolf, him hire edder people fuh wuk plan fuh git de better er Buh Rabbit an pit um een eh power, but, bless you soul! dem fail too, an Buh Rabbit, him go clear.

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**Who acts:** Buh, um · **What happens:** hire, bless, go · **To what, where:** fuh wuk plan, edder people, 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 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, um), 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:pg76586:10:115
# text = Buh Wolf, him hire edder people fuh wuk plan fuh git de better er Buh Rabbit an pit um een eh power, but, bless you soul! dem fail too, an Buh Rabbit, him go clear.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hire	hire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	edder	edder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	de	de	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
22	eh	eh	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	bless	bless	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
31	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	too	too	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
41	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hire** | present | Buh | fuh wuk plan | edder people |  |  | better er *obl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary plan=Theme |
| 2 | **bless** | infinitive |  | you |  |  |  | dem fail *obl*; soul *obj*; a Buh Rabbit *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | present | um |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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