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title: Buh Wolf, him yent spicion nuttne, an eh tan still an leh Buh Rabbit… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf, him yent spicion nuttne, an eh tan still an leh Buh Rabbit pit de saddle an bridle on um. Who acts: Buh. 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 96

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Buh Wolf, him yent spicion nuttne, an eh tan still an leh Buh Rabbit pit de saddle an bridle on um.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** nuttne, saddle · **To what, where:** bridle, um

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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), 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:pg76586:3:96
# text = Buh Wolf, him yent spicion nuttne, an eh tan still an leh Buh Rabbit pit de saddle an bridle on um.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	spicion	spicion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tan	tan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	leh	leh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	_
19	saddle	saddle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nuttne** |  | Buh |  |  |  |  | a eh tan and a leh *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **saddle** | infinitive | Buh | a bridle |  | um |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent bridle=Destination |

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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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