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title: Wen Buh Wolf pay him wisit de same ebenin, de Gal tell um wuh Buh Ra… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen Buh Wolf pay him wisit de same ebenin, de Gal tell um wuh Buh Rabbit bin say bout um. Who acts: Wen, Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3, 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 3, sentence 51

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Wen Buh Wolf pay him wisit de same ebenin, de Gal tell um wuh Buh Rabbit bin say bout um.

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**Who acts:** Wen, Buh · **What happens:** pay, tell, say · **To what, where:** er, um, bout um · **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 (Wen, Buh), 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:pg76586:3:51
# text = Wen Buh Wolf pay him wisit de same ebenin, de Gal tell um wuh Buh Rabbit bin say bout um.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	wisit	wisit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ebenin	ebenin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
19	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
20	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | present | Wen | er |  |  |  | wisit same ebenin and de *obl* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | um |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Buh | bout um |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent um=Topic |

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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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