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title: Dat bin er dutty trick wuh Buh Wolf play on eh fren and on Buh Rabbi… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dat bin er dutty trick wuh Buh Wolf play on eh fren and on Buh Rabbit, but Buh Rabbit, him outdo um. Who acts: Buh. 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 146

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Dat bin er dutty trick wuh Buh Wolf play on eh fren and on Buh Rabbit, but Buh Rabbit, him outdo um.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** play, outdo · **To what, where:** dutty trick, eh fren, Buh Rabbit

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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), 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:pg76586:10:146
# text = Dat bin er dutty trick wuh Buh Wolf play on eh fren and on Buh Rabbit, but Buh Rabbit, him outdo um.
1	Dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	dutty	dutty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fren	fren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	outdo	outdo	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
24	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | Buh | dutty trick  that bin *not said here* |  | eh fren and Buh Rabbit |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme |
| 2 | **outdo** | present | Buh | Buh Rabbit |  |  |  | um *obj* | 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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