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title: Befo dem state der fiel, Buh Rabbit notus say Buh Wolf hab een him h… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Befo dem state der fiel, Buh Rabbit notus say Buh Wolf hab een him house er nice pan er fresh butter. Who acts: state der fiel, Buh hab house. 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 pragma
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 106

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Befo dem state der fiel, Buh Rabbit notus say Buh Wolf hab een him house er nice pan er fresh butter.

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**Who acts:** state der fiel, Buh hab house · **What happens:** say, pan · **To what, where:** fresh butter · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (state der fiel, Buh hab house), 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:pg76586:5:106
# text = Befo dem state der fiel, Buh Rabbit notus say Buh Wolf hab een him house er nice pan er fresh butter.
1	Befo	Befo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	fiel	fiel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	notus	notus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
14	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	er	er	X	FW	_	19	compound	_	_
18	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
20	er	er	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | state der fiel and Rabbit notus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pan** |  | Buh hab house | fresh butter |  |  |  |  | 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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