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title: Den Buh Wolf schway: “De Gal done tell um say Buh Rabbit sisso, an e… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Wolf schway: “De Gal done tell um say Buh Rabbit sisso, an eh bleebe de Gal.” Who acts: De, Den schway. 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 80

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Den Buh Wolf schway: “De Gal done tell um say Buh Rabbit sisso, an eh bleebe de Gal.”

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**Who acts:** De, Den schway · **What happens:** do, tell, say · **To what, where:** De, um, Rabbit sisso · **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 (De, Den schway), 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:pg76586:3:80
# text = Den Buh Wolf schway: “De Gal done tell um say Buh Rabbit sisso, an eh bleebe de Gal.”
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	schway	schway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	sisso	sisso	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	bleebe	bleebe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	de	de	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | participle |  | De *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | De | um |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Den schway | Rabbit sisso |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sisso=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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