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title: Buh Rabbit bin spicion say de Gal guine tell Buh Wolf wuh him bin sa… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit bin spicion say de Gal guine tell Buh Wolf wuh him bin say bout um; an eh know, wen Buh Wolf yeddy, dat eh boun fur tackle um bout um. Who acts: bin spicion, de Gal guine, bin, eh know. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Op
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 54

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Buh Rabbit bin spicion say de Gal guine tell Buh Wolf wuh him bin say bout um; an eh know, wen Buh Wolf yeddy, dat eh boun fur tackle um bout um.

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**Who acts:** bin spicion, de Gal guine, bin, eh know · **What happens:** say, tell, tackle · **To what, where:** Buh Wolf, Wolf, 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 (bin spicion, de Gal guine, bin, eh know), 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:pg76586:3:54
# text = Buh Rabbit bin spicion say de Gal guine tell Buh Wolf wuh him bin say bout um; an eh know, wen Buh Wolf yeddy, dat eh boun fur tackle um bout um.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	spicion	spicion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
14	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	know	know	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	eh	eh	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	dep	_	_
30	boun	boun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	tackle	tackle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
33	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | bin spicion |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | de Gal guine | Buh Wolf | Wolf |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wolf=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | bin | bout um |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent um=Topic |
| 4 | **tackle** | present | a eh know and wen | bout um |  |  |  | Wolf yeddy and dat and boun fur *nsubj* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme |

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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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