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title: De ting mek Buh Wolf bex, an eh say Buh Rabbit lie, an eh guine fetc… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De ting mek Buh Wolf bex, an eh say Buh Rabbit lie, an eh guine fetch Buh Rabbit ter de Gal an mek um tek back dat big wud befo eh face. Who acts: mek Wolf bex, Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3, with its depende
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 52

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De ting mek Buh Wolf bex, an eh say Buh Rabbit lie, an eh guine fetch Buh Rabbit ter de Gal an mek um tek back dat big wud befo eh face.

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**Who acts:** mek Wolf bex, Buh · **What happens:** say, lie · **To what, where:** eh guine fetch · **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 (mek Wolf bex, 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:pg76586:3:52
# text = De ting mek Buh Wolf bex, an eh say Buh Rabbit lie, an eh guine fetch Buh Rabbit ter de Gal an mek um tek back dat big wud befo eh face.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bex	bex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	fetch	fetch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	flat:foreign	_	_
23	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	dat	dat	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	wud	wud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
32	befo	befo	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | mek Wolf bex |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lie** | present | Buh | a eh guine fetch and Rabbit ter and a mek um tek |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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