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title: Buh Rabbit, him mek ansur: “Buh Wolf, me cant see you now; me berry… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit, him mek ansur: “Buh Wolf, me cant see you now; me berry sick; me day in me bed; me too weak fuh open de do.” Who acts: Rabbit, Buh, weak fuh. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 70

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Buh Rabbit, him mek ansur: “Buh Wolf, me cant see you now; me berry sick; me day in me bed; me too weak fuh open de do.”

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, Buh, weak fuh · **What happens:** ansur, see, berry, do · **To what, where:** you, day bed

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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 (Rabbit, Buh, weak fuh), 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:pg76586:3:70
# text = Buh Rabbit, him mek ansur: “Buh Wolf, me cant see you now; me berry sick; me day in me bed; me too weak fuh open de do.”
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ansur	ansur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	cant	cant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	berry	berry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	compound	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
33	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	conj	_	_
34	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ansur** |  | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | Buh Wolf *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | Buh | you |  |  | now | cant *compound* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 3 | **berry** *in a quote* | present | Rabbit | day bed |  |  |  | me *obl*; sick *property* | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present | weak fuh |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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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