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title: Arter dat time wen Buh Rabbit bin play dat trick on Buh Wolf an ride… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Arter dat time wen Buh Rabbit bin play dat trick on Buh Wolf an ride um up ter de Gal house wuh dem all two bin er cote, Buh Wolf berry bex long Buh Rabbit, an eh wan ketch um fuh gie um good lickin. Who acts: Buh, dem, eh wan ketch um. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 51

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Arter dat time wen Buh Rabbit bin play dat trick on Buh Wolf an ride um up ter de Gal house wuh dem all two bin er cote, Buh Wolf berry bex long Buh Rabbit, an eh wan ketch um fuh gie um good lickin.

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**Who acts:** Buh, dem, eh wan ketch um · **What happens:** bin up, cote, rabbit, gie · **To what, where:** play dat trick, Buh Wolf, um

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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, dem, eh wan ketch um), 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:pg76586:10:51
# text = Arter dat time wen Buh Rabbit bin play dat trick on Buh Wolf an ride um up ter de Gal house wuh dem all two bin er cote, Buh Wolf berry bex long Buh Rabbit, an eh wan ketch um fuh gie um good lickin.
1	Arter	Arter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
18	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
19	de	de	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
23	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	all	all	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	cote	cote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
31	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	_
32	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	bex	bex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
39	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
40	wan	wan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
43	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	44	discourse	_	_
44	gie	gie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	acl	_	_
45	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
46	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	lickin	lickin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin up** | present | Buh  Arter time wen | play dat trick |  | Buh Wolf |  | a ride um *obj*; ter de Gal house and bin er cote and long Buh Rabbit *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cote** |  | dem |  |  |  |  | a eh wan ketch um *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rabbit** |  | Buh |  |  |  |  | berry bex *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **gie** | infinitive | a eh wan ketch um *not said here* | um and good lickin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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