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title: Den Buh Wolf ax um wuh dem bin name de chile, an Buh Rabbit tell um… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Wolf ax um wuh dem bin name de chile, an Buh Rabbit tell um say dem bin call um _Fus Biginnin_. Who acts: Den ax um, um. 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 124

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Den Buh Wolf ax um wuh dem bin name de chile, an Buh Rabbit tell um say dem bin call um \_Fus Biginnin\_.

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**Who acts:** Den ax um, um · **What happens:** tell, say · **To what, where:** call um · **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 (Den ax um, um), 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:pg76586:5:124
# text = Den Buh Wolf ax um wuh dem bin name de chile, an Buh Rabbit tell um say dem bin call um _Fus Biginnin_.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
6	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
7	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	_
11	chile	chile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
19	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Fus	Fus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	Biginnin	Biginnin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Den ax um and dem bin name and de chile and a Buh Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | um | call um |  |  |  | Fus *flat* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent um=Topic |

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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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