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title: Buh Rabbit, him mek answer: “Somebody yiz bin er call me, an me know… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit, him mek answer: “Somebody yiz bin er call me, an me know who dem yiz, an wuffer dem duh call me. Who acts: yiz bin, roun, wuffer dem. 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 pra
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 116

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Buh Rabbit, him mek answer: “Somebody yiz bin er call me, an me know who dem yiz, an wuffer dem duh call me.

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**Who acts:** yiz bin, roun, wuffer dem · **What happens:** call, know, yiz · **To what, where:** roun, Rabbit mek answer · **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 (yiz bin, roun, wuffer dem), 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:pg76586:5:116
# text = Buh Rabbit, him mek answer: “Somebody yiz bin er call me, an me know who dem yiz, an wuffer dem duh call me.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	_
5	mek	mek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	compound	_	_
10	yiz	yiz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
12	er	er	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	yiz	yiz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	wuffer	wuffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
26	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	_
27	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *in a quote* | infinitive | yiz bin *not said here* |  | roun |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | infinitive | roun |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **yiz** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; a wuffer dem *appos* | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** *in a quote* | infinitive | a wuffer dem *not said here* |  | roun |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |

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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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