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title: De King tell Buh Wolf an Buh Rabbit de one wuh kin stan de sanfly de… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De King tell Buh Wolf an Buh Rabbit de one wuh kin stan de sanfly de longes bedout bresh um way, shill git de gal. Who acts: De, stan sanfly de. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 109

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De King tell Buh Wolf an Buh Rabbit de one wuh kin stan de sanfly de longes bedout bresh um way, shill git de gal.

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**Who acts:** De, stan sanfly de · **What happens:** tell, longe, shill · **To what, where:** Buh Rabbit, Buh, one kin, git · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De, stan sanfly de), 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:pg76586:2:109
# text = De King tell Buh Wolf an Buh Rabbit de one wuh kin stan de sanfly de longes bedout bresh um way, shill git de gal.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	de	de	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
15	sanfly	sanfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	longes	longe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	bedout	bedout	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	bresh	bresh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	um	um	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	shill	shill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
24	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	gal	gal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | De | a Buh Rabbit | Buh |  |  | de one kin | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent buh=Recipient rabbit=Topic |
| 2 | **longe** | present | stan sanfly de | one kin *not said here* |  |  |  | bedout bresh um way | tree rules |
| 3 | **shill** | infinitive | De *not said here* | git |  |  |  | de gal *obj* | 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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