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title: Den Buh Alligatuh ax Buh Wolf pardon, an mek um tell um huccum Buh R… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Alligatuh ax Buh Wolf pardon, an mek um tell um huccum Buh Rabbit bin fool um an git um fuh tek eh place een de bag. Who acts: Den Wolf pardon, Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 131

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Den Buh Alligatuh ax Buh Wolf pardon, an mek um tell um huccum Buh Rabbit bin fool um an git um fuh tek eh place een de bag.

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**Who acts:** Den Wolf pardon, Buh · **What happens:** tell, bin · **To what, where:** um huccum, fool · **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 (Den Wolf pardon, Buh), 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:pg76586:11:131
# text = Den Buh Alligatuh ax Buh Wolf pardon, an mek um tell um huccum Buh Rabbit bin fool um an git um fuh tek eh place een de bag.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Alligatuh	Alligatuh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pardon	pardon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	huccum	huccum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
18	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	um	um	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	_
24	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	flat	_	_
28	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	29	compound	_	_
29	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Den Wolf pardon and a mek um | um huccum |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent huccum=Recipient |
| 2 | **bin** | present | Buh | fool |  |  |  | um a git um and tek eh place and de bag | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fool=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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