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title: Buh Rabbit say: “Buh Wolf, dont go so fas: me so weak me cant hole o… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit say: “Buh Wolf, dont go so fas: me so weak me cant hole on; you mus walk.” Who acts: Buh, you. 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 99

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Buh Rabbit say: “Buh Wolf, dont go so fas: me so weak me cant hole on; you mus walk.”

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**Who acts:** Buh, you · **What happens:** say, go, walk · **To what, where:** fas · **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), 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:pg76586:3:99
# text = Buh Rabbit say: “Buh Wolf, dont go so fas: me so weak me cant hole on; you mus walk.”
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	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	dont	dont	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	fas	fa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	mus	mu	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod:unmarked	_	_
24	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	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 | **go** *in a quote* | present | Buh | fas |  |  |  | me *obl* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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