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title: Wen Buh Wolf come in, eh fine Buh Rabbit kibber up in eh bed, duh pa… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen Buh Wolf come in, eh fine Buh Rabbit kibber up in eh bed, duh pant an duh moan berry pittiful. Who acts: Wen. 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 75

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Wen Buh Wolf come in, eh fine Buh Rabbit kibber up in eh bed, duh pant an duh moan berry pittiful.

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**Who acts:** Wen · **What happens:** come in, pant · **To what, where:** fine Buh Rabbit kibber, duh moan berry

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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 (Wen), 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:pg76586:3:75
# text = Wen Buh Wolf come in, eh fine Buh Rabbit kibber up in eh bed, duh pant an duh moan berry pittiful.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
8	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	kibber	kibber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
18	pant	pant	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	moan	moan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	pittiful	pittiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | present | Wen | fine Buh Rabbit kibber in eh bed |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pant** | infinitive |  | a duh moan berry |  |  |  | pittiful *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Topic |

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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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