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title: Buh Wolf, him say: “Lemme come in, Buh Rabbit; me bleege fuh see you… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf, him say: “Lemme come in, Buh Rabbit; me bleege fuh see you on tickler bidness.” Who acts: Buh, Lemme. 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 69

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Buh Wolf, him say: “Lemme come in, Buh Rabbit; me bleege fuh see you on tickler bidness.”

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**Who acts:** Buh, Lemme · **What happens:** say, come in, see · **To what, where:** you, tickler bidness · **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 (Buh, Lemme), 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:pg76586:3:69
# text = Buh Wolf, him say: “Lemme come in, Buh Rabbit; me bleege fuh see you on tickler bidness.”
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Lemme	Lemme	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	bleege	bleege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	tickler	tickler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	bidness	bidness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come in** *in a quote* | infinitive | Lemme |  |  |  |  | Buh Rabbit *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | Buh | you |  | tickler bidness |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

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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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