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title: But ef Buh Wolf hab de strenk, Buh Rabbit hab de bes sense. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: But ef Buh Wolf hab de strenk, Buh Rabbit hab de bes sense. Who acts: bes. 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 39

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But ef Buh Wolf hab de strenk, Buh Rabbit hab de bes sense.

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**Who acts:** bes · **What happens:** sense · **To what, where:** Rabbit hab, Buh Wolf hab

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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 (bes), 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:pg76586:10:39
# text = But ef Buh Wolf hab de strenk, Buh Rabbit hab de bes sense.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	strenk	strenk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	_
13	bes	be	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sense	sense	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sense** | present | bes | Rabbit hab *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hab=Stimulus |

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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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