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title: Buh Rabbit ride de horse ter him house, an eh sen wud ter Buh Wolf s… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit ride de horse ter him house, an eh sen wud ter Buh Wolf say him dist bin buy er fine ridin horse, an him want um fuh come an tek er ride long um. Who acts: Buh, eh sen, dist bin, um. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Openi
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 89

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Buh Rabbit ride de horse ter him house, an eh sen wud ter Buh Wolf say him dist bin buy er fine ridin horse, an him want um fuh come an tek er ride long um.

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**Who acts:** Buh, eh sen, dist bin, um · **What happens:** ride, ter, say, buy, want, come · **To what, where:** de horse, horse, fine ridin horse, um, tek er, long 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 (Buh, eh sen, dist bin, 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:pg76586:10:89
# text = Buh Rabbit ride de horse ter him house, an eh sen wud ter Buh Wolf say him dist bin buy er fine ridin horse, an him want um fuh come an tek er ride long um.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	amod	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sen	sen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	wud	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	ter	ter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	dist	dist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	buy	buy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
22	er	er	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	ridin	ridin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	compound	_	_
25	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
30	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
37	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | present | Buh | de horse |  |  |  | ter him house | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 2 | **ter** | would | a eh sen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Buh | horse |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 4 | **buy** | present | dist bin | fine ridin horse |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 5 | **want** | infinitive | Buh | um |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** *not said to happen* | infinitive | um *not said here* | a tek er |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location er=Theme |
| 7 | **ride** | present | Buh *not said here* | long um |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme |

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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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