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title: Buh Fox bin tink say de Ole Man gwine pity um, an tek um een eh wagg… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Fox bin tink say de Ole Man gwine pity um, an tek um een eh waggin same luk eh done Buh Rabbit. Who acts: Buh Fox bin, waggin, same luk eh. 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 prag
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 24

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Buh Fox bin tink say de Ole Man gwine pity um, an tek um een eh waggin same luk eh done Buh Rabbit.

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**Who acts:** Buh Fox bin, waggin, same luk eh · **What happens:** say, eh, do · **To what, where:** de, Buh Rabbit · **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 Fox bin, waggin, same luk eh), 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:pg76586:10:24
# text = Buh Fox bin tink say de Ole Man gwine pity um, an tek um een eh waggin same luk eh done Buh Rabbit.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	tink	tink	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	_
17	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	waggin	waggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	luk	luk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
22	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Buh Fox bin | de |  |  |  | Ole pity um *obj* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent de=Theme um=Manner |
| 2 | **eh** |  | waggin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | participle | same luk eh *not said here* | Buh Rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Eventuality |

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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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