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title: Buh Rabbit say: “Hole on, Buh Wolf, me cant set on you back dout fal… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit say: “Hole on, Buh Wolf, me cant set on you back dout fall off: me mus hab someting fuh steady me; you mus gimme someting fuh me fuh hole on ter. Who acts: Buh, you, mus hab, mus gimme. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Op
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 93

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Buh Rabbit say: “Hole on, Buh Wolf, me cant set on you back dout fall off: me mus hab someting fuh steady me; you mus gimme someting fuh me fuh hole on ter.

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**Who acts:** Buh, you, mus hab, mus gimme · **What happens:** say, hole on, set, dout, fall off, hab · **To what, where:** Buh Wolf, cant set, Buh · **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 (Buh, you, mus hab, mus gimme), 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:pg76586:3:93
# text = Buh Rabbit say: “Hole on, Buh Wolf, me cant set on you back dout fall off: me mus hab someting fuh steady me; you mus gimme someting fuh me fuh hole on ter.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Hole	hole	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	dout	dout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	mus	mus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
25	someting	somet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	mus	mus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	gimme	gimme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
33	someting	somet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	35	discourse	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	37	discourse	_	_
37	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hole on** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Buh Wolf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **set** *in a quote* |  | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dout** *in a quote* | present | you | cant set *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fall off** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **hab** *in a quote* |  | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **somet** *in a quote* | gerund | mus hab and mus gimme *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fuh *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **gimme** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **somet** *in a quote* | gerund | mus gimme *not said here* | Buh |  |  |  | hole on ter *obl* | 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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