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title: Buh Wolf, him stonish, an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, you must be loss you… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf, him stonish, an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, you must be loss you sense; who you duh holler teh? Who acts: Buh, you, Rabbit. 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 cl
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 134

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Buh Wolf, him stonish, an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, you must be loss you sense; who you duh holler teh?

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**Who acts:** Buh, you, Rabbit · **What happens:** stonish, say, be, sense, duh · **To what, where:** Buh, loss, holler teh · **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 (Buh, you, Rabbit), 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:pg76586:5:134
# text = Buh Wolf, him stonish, an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, you must be loss you sense; who you duh holler teh?
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	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	stonish	stonish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sense	sense	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	duh	duh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
25	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	teh	teh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stonish** | present | Buh | Buh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | infinitive | Buh |  |  |  |  | a eh *nsubj*; Rabbit and loss *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | must | you | loss |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sense** *in a quote* | present | you | loss *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus |
| 5 | **duh** *in a quote* | present | Rabbit and loss | holler teh |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | 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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