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title: Buh Rabbit run Buh Wolf down dat eh nebber bin nuse no sich wud. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit run Buh Wolf down dat eh nebber bin nuse no sich wud. Who acts: Buh, dat. 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 81

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Buh Rabbit run Buh Wolf down dat eh nebber bin nuse no sich wud.

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**Who acts:** Buh, dat · **What happens:** run down, nuse · **To what, where:** Buh Wolf, sich wud

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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, dat), 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:pg76586:3:81
# text = Buh Rabbit run Buh Wolf down dat eh nebber bin nuse no sich wud.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	dat	dat	X	GW	_	11	nsubj	_	_
8	eh	eh	X	GW	_	7	goeswith	_	_
9	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
11	nuse	nuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
13	sich	sich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	wud	wud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run down** | present | Buh | Buh Wolf |  |  |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Agent |
| 2 | **nuse** | present | dat | no sich wud |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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