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title: Buh Pattridge ax Buh Rabbit: “Way we gwine butcher um?” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Pattridge ax Buh Rabbit: “Way we gwine butcher um?” Who acts: we. 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 of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 6

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Buh Pattridge ax Buh Rabbit: “Way we gwine butcher um?”

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** gwine · **To what, where:** ax Buh Rabbit

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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 (we), 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:pg76586:12:6
# text = Buh Pattridge ax Buh Rabbit: “Way we gwine butcher um?”
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	butcher	butcher	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gwine** *in a quote* |  | we |  |  |  |  | um *conj* | 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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