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title: One day de Dog meet Buh Rabbit der wood, an dout say one wud ter um,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One day de Dog meet Buh Rabbit der wood, an dout say one wud ter um, eh lean arter um fuh ketch um. Who acts: de Dog. 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 54

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One day de Dog meet Buh Rabbit der wood, an dout say one wud ter um, eh lean arter um fuh ketch um.

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**Who acts:** de Dog · **What happens:** meet, say · **To what, where:** Buh der wood, one wud ter um · **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 (de Dog), 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:pg76586:10:54
# text = One day de Dog meet Buh Rabbit der wood, an dout say one wud ter um, eh lean arter um fuh ketch um.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	_	5	nsubj	_	_
5	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dout	dout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
15	wud	wud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
19	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
20	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	arter	arter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
23	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
24	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | infinitive | de Dog | Buh der wood and a dout |  |  | day | lean arter um *obl* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | de Dog *not said here* | one wud ter um |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent um=Topic |

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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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