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title: De time come fuh knock off wuk, an wen Buh Wolf want fuh dock Buh Ra… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De time come fuh knock off wuk, an wen Buh Wolf want fuh dock Buh Rabbit fuh de time eh loss wen eh bin gone fuh bactize dem tree chillun, Buh Rabbit plead so harde case him bin preacher, dat Buh Wolf, him furgib um an pay um eh full wager. Who acts: De time, wuk, fuh dock, dock. A sentence of «Negr
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 162

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De time come fuh knock off wuk, an wen Buh Wolf want fuh dock Buh Rabbit fuh de time eh loss wen eh bin gone fuh bactize dem tree chillun, Buh Rabbit plead so harde case him bin preacher, dat Buh Wolf, him furgib um an pay um eh full wager.

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**Who acts:** De time, wuk, fuh dock, dock · **What happens:** come, knock off, want, go, plead, bin · **To what, where:** harde case, preacher

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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 (De time, wuk, fuh dock, dock), 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:pg76586:5:162
# text = De time come fuh knock off wuk, an wen Buh Wolf want fuh dock Buh Rabbit fuh de time eh loss wen eh bin gone fuh bactize dem tree chillun, Buh Rabbit plead so harde case him bin preacher, dat Buh Wolf, him furgib um an pay um eh full wager.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	dock	dock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	flat:foreign	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
22	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
26	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	_
27	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
28	bactize	bactize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
34	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
35	plead	plead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	harde	harde	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
41	preacher	preacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
44	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	_
45	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	compound	_	_
48	furgib	furgib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
49	um	um	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
50	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
51	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
54	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	wager	wager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | De time |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **knock off** | infinitive | De time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **want** | present | wuk and a wen |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **go** | participle | fuh dock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **plead** *speech: request* | present | fuh dock | harde case |  |  |  | him furgib um a um eh and full wager *obl* | tree rules |
| 6 | **bin** | present | dock | preacher and dat |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent preacher=Theme |

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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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