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title: Buh Wolf say: “Buh Rabbit, you mus lemme in: you de only man wuh kin… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf say: “Buh Rabbit, you mus lemme in: you de only man wuh kin ten ter de bidness wuh bring me yuh.” Who acts: Buh, you. 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 cl
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 71

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Buh Wolf say: “Buh Rabbit, you mus lemme in: you de only man wuh kin ten ter de bidness wuh bring me yuh.”

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**Who acts:** Buh, you · **What happens:** say, de, bring · **To what, where:** man, Buh · **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, you), 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:pg76586:3:71
# text = Buh Wolf say: “Buh Rabbit, you mus lemme in: you de only man wuh kin ten ter de bidness wuh bring me yuh.”
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	mus	mus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	lemme	lemme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	de	de	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
19	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	_
21	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	compound	_	_
23	bidness	bidness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
25	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	yuh	yuh	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	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 |  |  |  |  | Rabbit and mus lemme  you *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **de** *in a quote* | present | you | man |  |  |  | kin ter and de bidness *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | Buh |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |

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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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