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title: Buh Rabbit say: “How you kin ax me sich er question, wen me bin see… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit say: “How you kin ax me sich er question, wen me bin see er whole gang er Pattridge dis gone from yuh? Who acts: Buh, you, er. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 16

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Buh Rabbit say: “How you kin ax me sich er question, wen me bin see er whole gang er Pattridge dis gone from yuh?

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**Who acts:** Buh, you, er · **What happens:** say, ax, bin, see, go, question · **To what, where:** Buh, gang er, Pattridge dis · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh, you, 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:pg76586:12:16
# text = Buh Rabbit say: “How you kin ax me sich er question, wen me bin see er whole gang er Pattridge dis gone from yuh?
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	kin	kin	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	ax	ax	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	sich	sich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	er	er	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
17	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
19	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
20	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	gang	gang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	er	er	X	GW	_	18	obj	_	_
23	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
25	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	yuh	yuh	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **ax** *in a quote* |  | you | Buh |  |  |  | sich *obj*; er's question  me and wen *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | gang er |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer er=Stimulus |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | participle |  | Pattridge dis *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **question** *in a quote* |  | er |  |  |  |  |  | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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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