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title: Buh Possum grin eh teet same lucker fool, an eh say, wen de dog come… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Possum grin eh teet same lucker fool, an eh say, wen de dog come pon topper um, dem tickle him rib so bad long dem mout dat him bleege ter laugh; an so him furgit fuh fight. Who acts: Buh, wen. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, O
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 60

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Buh Possum grin eh teet same lucker fool, an eh say, wen de dog come pon topper um, dem tickle him rib so bad long dem mout dat him bleege ter laugh; an so him furgit fuh fight.

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**Who acts:** Buh, wen · **What happens:** grin, say, come, tickle, laugh · **To what, where:** teet same lucker fool, pon topper um, dog · **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, wen), 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:pg76586:11:60
# text = Buh Possum grin eh teet same lucker fool, an eh say, wen de dog come pon topper um, dem tickle him rib so bad long dem mout dat him bleege ter laugh; an so him furgit fuh fight.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	grin	grin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	teet	teet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	lucker	lucker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	flat:foreign	_	_
16	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
18	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	tickle	tickle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	rib	rib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	mout	mout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
31	dat	dat	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	bleege	bleege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	parataxis	_	_
40	furgit	furgit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grin** | present | Buh | teet same lucker fool and a eh |  |  |  | dog *parataxis* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Buh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive | wen | pon topper um and dem |  |  |  | dog *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tickle** | present | Buh *not said here* | dog |  |  |  | rib  bad long dem mout dat dog *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer rib=Result |
| 5 | **laugh** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | bleege ter *compound* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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