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title: Buh Wolf wait tel Buh Rabbit sorter come teh, an den eh help um ter… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf wait tel Buh Rabbit sorter come teh, an den eh help um ter him house an tell um goodbye. Who acts: Buh, Buh Rabbit sorter, den 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 pragmati
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 45

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Buh Wolf wait tel Buh Rabbit sorter come teh, an den eh help um ter him house an tell um goodbye.

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**Who acts:** Buh, Buh Rabbit sorter, den eh · **What happens:** wait, come, help, tell · **To what, where:** tel, um house, um goodbye · **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, Buh Rabbit sorter, den 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:pg76586:10:45
# text = Buh Wolf wait tel Buh Rabbit sorter come teh, an den eh help um ter him house an tell um goodbye.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	teh	teh	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	um	um	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	amod	_	_
16	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | present | Buh | tel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | Buh Rabbit sorter |  |  |  |  | teh *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | present | a den eh | um house |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a den eh *not said here* | um goodbye |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent goodbye=Recipient |

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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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