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title: At lenk Buh Rabbit mek tense say eh gie way caze Buh Wolf bague um s… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: At lenk Buh Rabbit mek tense say eh gie way caze Buh Wolf bague um so bad, an eh say: “Well, Budder, you seem so anxious me gwine leh you tek me chance dis time, an me will haffer wait topper de Lord tel narruh tun.” Who acts: Buh tense, eh, you, haffer. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia c
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 112

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At lenk Buh Rabbit mek tense say eh gie way caze Buh Wolf bague um so bad, an eh say: “Well, Budder, you seem so anxious me gwine leh you tek me chance dis time, an me will haffer wait topper de Lord tel narruh tun.”

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**Who acts:** Buh tense, eh, you, haffer · **What happens:** say, gie, seem, tek, haffer, wait · **To what, where:** lenk, way caze, anxious gwine leh, topper · **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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh tense, eh, you, haffer), 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:pg76586:11:112
# text = At lenk Buh Rabbit mek tense say eh gie way caze Buh Wolf bague um so bad, an eh say: “Well, Budder, you seem so anxious me gwine leh you tek me chance dis time, an me will haffer wait topper de Lord tel narruh tun.”
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	lenk	lenk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
6	tense	tense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gie	gie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	caze	caze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
13	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	bague	bague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	Budder	budder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	iobj	_	_
33	gwine	gwine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	leh	leh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	tek	tek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
37	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
39	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	haffer	haffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	parataxis	_	_
47	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
48	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	47	flat:foreign	_	_
49	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
51	narruh	narruh	INTJ	UH	_	52	discourse	_	_
52	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Buh tense |  |  | lenk |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **gie** | present | eh | way caze |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a eh | way caze *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent caze=Topic |
| 4 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **tek** *in a quote* | present | you | anxious gwine leh |  |  | time | me *obj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **haffer** *in a quote* | future | Buh tense *= tense* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **wait** *in a quote* | infinitive | a haffer | topper |  |  |  | Lord tel *obj*; tun *parataxis* | 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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