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title: Buh Alligatuh an Buh Wolf all two mek plan fuh ketch Buh Rabbit, but… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Alligatuh an Buh Wolf all two mek plan fuh ketch Buh Rabbit, but dem nebber did obertek um. Who acts: dem nebber. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 136

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Buh Alligatuh an Buh Wolf all two mek plan fuh ketch Buh Rabbit, but dem nebber did obertek um.

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**Who acts:** dem nebber · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** obertek um, Buh

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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 (dem nebber), 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:pg76586:11:136
# text = Buh Alligatuh an Buh Wolf all two mek plan fuh ketch Buh Rabbit, but dem nebber did obertek um.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Alligatuh	Alligatuh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
8	mek	mek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
19	obertek	obertek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | dem nebber | obertek um |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Eventuality |

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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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