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title: Him no know, but Buh Wolf ketch sight er um outer de corner ob him y… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Him no know, but Buh Wolf ketch sight er um outer de corner ob him yeye wen Buh Rabbit hop een de do an run back side er de room. Who acts: sight er. 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 th
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 75

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Him no know, but Buh Wolf ketch sight er um outer de corner ob him yeye wen Buh Rabbit hop een de do an run back side er de room.

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**Who acts:** sight er · **What happens:** hop, do, run back · **To what, where:** wen, side

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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 (sight er), 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:pg76586:11:75
# text = Him no know, but Buh Wolf ketch sight er um outer de corner ob him yeye wen Buh Rabbit hop een de do an run back side er de room.
1	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	know	know	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	er	er	X	GW	_	21	nsubj	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	goeswith	_	_
12	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
14	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	ob	ob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
20	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	hop	hop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	flat	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	er	er	X	FW	_	31	compound	_	_
30	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	compound	_	_
31	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hop** | present | sight er  um | wen |  |  |  | een *obj* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme een=Trajectory |
| 2 | **do** | present | sight er  um *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **run back** | infinitive | sight er  um *not said here* | side and er de room |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme side=Trajectory |

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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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