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title: Buh Wolf, him come, an wen eh look topper de horse eh tell Buh Rabbi… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf, him come, an wen eh look topper de horse eh tell Buh Rabbit him would lub fuh ride um, but dat him faid say de horse gwine fling um. Who acts: Buh, wen eh, topper, faid. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, w
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 90

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Buh Wolf, him come, an wen eh look topper de horse eh tell Buh Rabbit him would lub fuh ride um, but dat him faid say de horse gwine fling um.

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**Who acts:** Buh, wen eh, topper, faid · **What happens:** come, look, tell, lub, ride, dat · **To what, where:** Buh Rabbit, um, de horse · **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, wen eh, topper, faid), 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:pg76586:10:90
# text = Buh Wolf, him come, an wen eh look topper de horse eh tell Buh Rabbit him would lub fuh ride um, but dat him faid say de horse gwine fling um.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	lub	lub	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
21	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
22	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	dat	dat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	faid	faid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	nsubj	_	_
29	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
30	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	compound	_	_
31	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	gwine	gwine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	fling	fling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | a wen eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | topper |  | Buh Rabbit |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent rabbit=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **lub** | would | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **ride** | infinitive | Buh *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme |
| 6 | **dat** | past | Buh *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | faid | de horse |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=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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