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title: Soon es Buh Wolf come anigh um, Buh Rabbit biggin fuh sing say him g… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon es Buh Wolf come anigh um, Buh Rabbit biggin fuh sing say him gwine teh Hebben, way him will hab nuttne fuh do cept joy ehself; way him will hab no corn fuh grine, no tetter fuh dig, no cotton fuh pick, no rice fuh hoe, an no chillun fuh mine. Who acts: Soon es, Rabbit biggin, gwine, nuttne fuh
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 99

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Soon es Buh Wolf come anigh um, Buh Rabbit biggin fuh sing say him gwine teh Hebben, way him will hab nuttne fuh do cept joy ehself; way him will hab no corn fuh grine, no tetter fuh dig, no cotton fuh pick, no rice fuh hoe, an no chillun fuh mine.

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**Who acts:** Soon es, Rabbit biggin, gwine, nuttne fuh, fuh · **What happens:** come, say, hab, do, tetter · **To what, where:** anigh um, um, way, cept joy, fuh dig · **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 (Soon es, Rabbit biggin, gwine, nuttne fuh), 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:pg76586:11:99
# text = Soon es Buh Wolf come anigh um, Buh Rabbit biggin fuh sing say him gwine teh Hebben, way him will hab nuttne fuh do cept joy ehself; way him will hab no corn fuh grine, no tetter fuh dig, no cotton fuh pick, no rice fuh hoe, an no chillun fuh mine.
1	Soon	soon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	anigh	anigh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	biggin	biggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
17	teh	teh	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Hebben	Hebben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	hab	hab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
24	nuttne	nuttne	X	FW	_	25	compound	_	_
25	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
27	cept	cept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	hab	hab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
36	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	grine	grine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	41	discourse	_	_
41	tetter	tetter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
42	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	dig	dig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	48	det	_	_
46	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	pick	pick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	53	det	_	_
51	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
52	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	hoe	hoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	57	det	_	_
57	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
58	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	59	discourse	_	_
59	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Soon es | anigh um |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location um=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Rabbit biggin and fuh sing | um |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hab** | future | gwine teh Hebben | way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | present | nuttne fuh | cept joy |  |  |  | ehself *obl:unmarked* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Eventuality |
| 5 | **hab** | future | fuh | way |  |  |  | no corn and fuh grine *obj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **tetter** | infinitive | fuh *not said here* | fuh dig and no fuh pick and no rice fuh hoe and a chillun  mine |  |  |  |  | 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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