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title: One mornin Buh Rabbit bin a mek fun er Buh Wolf ter de Gal, an eh te… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One mornin Buh Rabbit bin a mek fun er Buh Wolf ter de Gal, an eh tell um say Buh Wolf yent duh nuttne mo den eh farruh ridin horse. Who acts: One mornin, eh tell um. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3, with its depend
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 50

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One mornin Buh Rabbit bin a mek fun er Buh Wolf ter de Gal, an eh tell um say Buh Wolf yent duh nuttne mo den eh farruh ridin horse.

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**Who acts:** One mornin, eh tell um · **What happens:** bin, say · **To what, where:** fun er, Buh · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One mornin, eh tell um), 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:pg76586:3:50
# text = One mornin Buh Rabbit bin a mek fun er Buh Wolf ter de Gal, an eh tell um say Buh Wolf yent duh nuttne mo den eh farruh ridin horse.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	er	er	X	GW	_	5	obj	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	goeswith	_	_
13	de	de	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	list	_	_
24	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
25	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	eh	eh	X	GW	_	20	obj	_	_
29	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	31	discourse	_	_
30	ridin	ridin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	compound	_	_
31	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | One mornin | fun er  Wolf ter |  |  |  | de Gal | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent er=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a eh tell um | Buh |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent buh=Theme eh=Manner |

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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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