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title: Buh Rabbit mek answer say him mussnt faid; dat him gwine pit saddle… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit mek answer say him mussnt faid; dat him gwine pit saddle on de horse, an wen Buh Wolf git een um eh gwine tie eh leg so him cant fall off; an, mo ner dat, him gwine git up behine fuh hole um on. Who acts: Rabbit, wen, ner dat. 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 91

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Buh Rabbit mek answer say him mussnt faid; dat him gwine pit saddle on de horse, an wen Buh Wolf git een um eh gwine tie eh leg so him cant fall off; an, mo ner dat, him gwine git up behine fuh hole um on.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, wen, ner dat · **What happens:** answer, say, dat, leg, fall off, um on · **To what, where:** Rabbit · **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 (Rabbit, wen, ner dat), 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:pg76586:10:91
# text = Buh Rabbit mek answer say him mussnt faid; dat him gwine pit saddle on de horse, an wen Buh Wolf git een um eh gwine tie eh leg so him cant fall off; an, mo ner dat, him gwine git up behine fuh hole um on.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	answer	answer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	mussnt	mussnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	faid	faid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	dat	dat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	gwine	gwine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
17	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
22	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	_
25	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	eh	eh	ADV	AFX	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	gwine	gwine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	tie	tie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
31	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	advcl	_	_
34	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
35	off	off	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	ner	ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	conj	_	_
44	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
46	up	up	ADP	RP	_	41	compound	_	_
47	behine	behine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
48	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
51	on	on	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | Rabbit |  |  |  | mussnt faid *obj* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme faid=Manner |
| 3 | **dat** | infinitive | Rabbit *not said here* | Rabbit |  |  |  | gwine pit saddle *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **leg** |  | a wen |  |  |  |  | git um *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fall off** | present | Rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **um on** |  | a ner dat  um and gwine git |  |  |  |  | behine *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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