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title: Buh Roccoon ax Buh Possum wuh mek, wen de dog tackle um, eh double u… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Roccoon ax Buh Possum wuh mek, wen de dog tackle um, eh double up ehself, an kibber eh yeye wid eh han, an wunt fight lucker man an lick de dog off. Who acts: Buh dog, eh yeye. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 59

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Buh Roccoon ax Buh Possum wuh mek, wen de dog tackle um, eh double up ehself, an kibber eh yeye wid eh han, an wunt fight lucker man an lick de dog off.

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**Who acts:** Buh dog, eh yeye · **What happens:** tackle, double up, han · **To what, where:** um, ehself

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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 dog, eh yeye), 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:pg76586:11:59
# text = Buh Roccoon ax Buh Possum wuh mek, wen de dog tackle um, eh double up ehself, an kibber eh yeye wid eh han, an wunt fight lucker man an lick de dog off.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
2	Roccoon	Roccoon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	list	_	_
6	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat	_	_
11	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	tackle	tackle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	double	double	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
21	kibber	kibber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	wunt	wunt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	lucker	lucker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	lick	lick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
35	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	34	flat:foreign	_	_
36	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
37	off	off	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tackle** | infinitive | Buh dog | um |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme |
| 2 | **double up** | infinitive | Buh dog *not said here* | ehself |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ehself=Patient |
| 3 | **han** |  | eh yeye |  |  |  |  | a wunt lucker man and lick dog *conj* | 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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