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title: Buh Rabbit yeddy; an eh spicion say Buh Wolf smell um, an fine out s… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit yeddy; an eh spicion say Buh Wolf smell um, an fine out say him bin een eh house. Who acts: Rabbit yeddy, Buh Wolf, fine. 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 e
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 79

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Buh Rabbit yeddy; an eh spicion say Buh Wolf smell um, an fine out say him bin een eh house.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit yeddy, Buh Wolf, fine · **What happens:** say, smell, bin · **To what, where:** um, een eh house · **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 (Rabbit yeddy, Buh Wolf, fine), 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:pg76586:11:79
# text = Buh Rabbit yeddy; an eh spicion say Buh Wolf smell um, an fine out say him bin een eh house.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	spicion	spicion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	smell	smell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Rabbit yeddy and a eh spicion |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **smell** | present | Buh Wolf | um |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer um=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a fine | um |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bin** | infinitive | a fine *not said here* | een eh house |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme |

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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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