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title: Buh Wolf him yent leh Buh Rabbit know say him shum, but eh biggin fu… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf him yent leh Buh Rabbit know say him shum, but eh biggin fuh tun eh chune, an eh play an eh sing: “Tenk God, rain done sen meat een me house. Who acts: Wolf yent leh, biggin, rain. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 77

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Buh Wolf him yent leh Buh Rabbit know say him shum, but eh biggin fuh tun eh chune, an eh play an eh sing: “Tenk God, rain done sen meat een me house.

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**Who acts:** Wolf yent leh, biggin, rain · **What happens:** know, say, play, do · **To what, where:** EH, eh sing, sen meat · **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 (Wolf yent leh, biggin, rain), 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:pg76586:11:77
# text = Buh Wolf him yent leh Buh Rabbit know say him shum, but eh biggin fuh tun eh chune, an eh play an eh sing: “Tenk God, rain done sen meat een me house.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
4	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	leh	leh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	shum	shum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
14	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	biggin	biggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
16	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	chune	chune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Tenk	Tenk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	sen	sen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
37	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:unmarked	_	_
38	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Wolf yent leh |  |  |  |  | Tenk God and rain *parataxis* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | EH |  |  |  | shum *obj* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme shum=Manner |
| 3 | **play** | infinitive | eh biggin and fuh eh chune | a eh sing |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Theme |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | rain *not said here* | sen meat |  |  |  | een house *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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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