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title: Wen Buh Rabbit fine no chance fur um fuh dodge no mo, an dat Buh Wol… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen Buh Rabbit fine no chance fur um fuh dodge no mo, an dat Buh Wolf boun fuh mek um go, eh git Buh Wolf fuh help um outer de bed. Who acts: dat boun, git Buh fuh, um. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3, with its depe
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 88

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Wen Buh Rabbit fine no chance fur um fuh dodge no mo, an dat Buh Wolf boun fuh mek um go, eh git Buh Wolf fuh help um outer de bed.

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**Who acts:** dat boun, git Buh fuh, um · **What happens:** dodge, go, help, bed · **To what, where:** mo

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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 (dat boun, git Buh fuh, um), 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:pg76586:3:88
# text = Wen Buh Rabbit fine no chance fur um fuh dodge no mo, an dat Buh Wolf boun fuh mek um go, eh git Buh Wolf fuh help um outer de bed.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
6	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	um	um	X	GW	_	4	parataxis	_	_
9	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	dodge	dodge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	boun	boun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
20	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
25	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
26	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
30	um	um	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	nsubj	_	_
31	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	compound	_	_
33	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dodge** | present |  | no mo |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent mo=Location |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | dat boun |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | present | git Buh fuh |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bed** |  | um |  |  |  |  |  | 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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