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title: Onbeknowinst ter Buh Wolf, Buh Rabbit slip behind de do an pit on er… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Onbeknowinst ter Buh Wolf, Buh Rabbit slip behind de do an pit on er pair er keen spur. Who acts: Onbeknowinst ter. 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 97

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Onbeknowinst ter Buh Wolf, Buh Rabbit slip behind de do an pit on er pair er keen spur.

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**Who acts:** Onbeknowinst ter · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** pit, er pair

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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 (Onbeknowinst ter), 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:pg76586:3:97
# text = Onbeknowinst ter Buh Wolf, Buh Rabbit slip behind de do an pit on er pair er keen spur.
1	Onbeknowinst	Onbeknowinst	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	er	er	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	er	er	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	spur	spur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | Onbeknowinst ter and Rabbit slip behind de | a pit |  | er pair er keen spur |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pit=Eventuality |

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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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