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title: Buh Wolf tan by de bed, an eh ax Buh Rabbit: “Enty you tell de Gal,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf tan by de bed, an eh ax Buh Rabbit: “Enty you tell de Gal, wuh we bin a cote, say me bin nuttne but you farruh ridin horse?” Who acts: eh ax, Gal, we, de bed. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3, with its depen
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 76

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Buh Wolf tan by de bed, an eh ax Buh Rabbit: “Enty you tell de Gal, wuh we bin a cote, say me bin nuttne but you farruh ridin horse?”

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**Who acts:** eh ax, Gal, we, de bed · **What happens:** rabbit, tell, bin, say, horse, tan · **To what, where:** Enty, Gal, cote, me, nuttne, Wolf tan · **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 (eh ax, Gal, we, de bed), 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:pg76586:3:76
# text = Buh Wolf tan by de bed, an eh ax Buh Rabbit: “Enty you tell de Gal, wuh we bin a cote, say me bin nuttne but you farruh ridin horse?”
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tan	tan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Enty	enty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	ccomp	_	_
19	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cote	cote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
27	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	35	discourse	_	_
34	ridin	ridin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	compound	_	_
35	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rabbit** |  | a eh ax |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Gal | Enty | Gal |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent gal=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | we | a cote |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cote=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bin** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | nuttne |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nuttne=Theme |
| 6 | **horse** *in a quote* |  | Gal |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **tan** |  | de bed |  |  |  |  |  | nom tan «state intransitive»: by=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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