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title: Buh Rabbit, him gree fuh do so ef de Buckra man would len um one hor… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit, him gree fuh do so ef de Buckra man would len um one horse, an would prommus no fuh tell Buh Wolf nuttne bout de ting. Who acts: Rabbit, prommus. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tre
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 87

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Buh Rabbit, him gree fuh do so ef de Buckra man would len um one horse, an would prommus no fuh tell Buh Wolf nuttne bout de ting.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, prommus · **What happens:** gree, len, bout · **To what, where:** fuh, 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 (Rabbit, prommus), 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:pg76586:10:87
# text = Buh Rabbit, him gree fuh do so ef de Buckra man would len um one horse, an would prommus no fuh tell Buh Wolf nuttne bout de ting.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gree	gree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
9	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	de	de	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Buckra	Buckra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	len	len	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	um	um	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	prommus	prommus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
23	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
26	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
29	de	de	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gree** | present | Rabbit | fuh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **len** | would · present · do-support | Rabbit | um |  |  |  | ef de Buckra man *nsubj*; one horse *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bout** |  | a prommus |  |  |  |  | de ting; no fuh tell *nsubj* | 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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