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title: Den Buh Rabbit mek um senserble wen de Ole Man gwine come long de ro… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Rabbit mek um senserble wen de Ole Man gwine come long de road, an eh show um good place fuh him fuh wuk eh plan fuh do dist es him bin do. Who acts: um senserble wen, wuk, bin. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 19

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Den Buh Rabbit mek um senserble wen de Ole Man gwine come long de road, an eh show um good place fuh him fuh wuk eh plan fuh do dist es him bin do.

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**Who acts:** um senserble wen, wuk, bin · **What happens:** come, do

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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 (um senserble wen, wuk, bin), 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:pg76586:10:19
# text = Den Buh Rabbit mek um senserble wen de Ole Man gwine come long de road, an eh show um good place fuh him fuh wuk eh plan fuh do dist es him bin do.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	senserble	senserble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	de	de	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
14	de	de	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
18	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
23	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
26	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
31	dist	dist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	_
34	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | um senserble wen de Ole Man gwine |  |  |  |  | de road and a um good place  um; long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | wuk and eh plan fuh |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | present | dist es  um's bin |  |  |  |  |  | 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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