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title: Buh Wolf, him hire Buh Rabbit fuh help um wuk eh crap. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf, him hire Buh Rabbit fuh help um wuk eh crap. Who acts: Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5, 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 5, sentence 104

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Buh Wolf, him hire Buh Rabbit fuh help um wuk eh crap.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** hire, um · **To what, where:** Buh, wuk

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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 5. 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:pg76586:5:104
# text = Buh Wolf, him hire Buh Rabbit fuh help um wuk eh crap.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hire	hire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	um	um	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	crap	crap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hire** | present | Buh | Buh |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buh=Theme |
| 2 | **um** | infinitive | Buh *not said here* | wuk and eh crap |  |  |  | fuh help *compound* | 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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