---
title: Buh Rabbit prommus fuh help, but wen dem call pon um fuh help tote d… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit prommus fuh help, but wen dem call pon um fuh help tote de pole and de bresh, him mek scuse, say him wife berry sick and him bleege fuh tay home an nuss um. Who acts: Rabbit prommus fuh, um fuh, togedder. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charle
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/55/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Negro myths from the Georgia coast, to…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/) / [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/) / 55

# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 55

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Buh Rabbit prommus fuh help, but wen dem call pon um fuh help tote de pole and de bresh, him mek scuse, say him wife berry sick and him bleege fuh tay home an nuss um.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Rabbit prommus fuh, um fuh, togedder · **What happens:** help, tote, scuse, say · **To what, where:** togedder, pole · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Rabbit prommus fuh, um fuh, togedder), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:5:55
# text = Buh Rabbit prommus fuh help, but wen dem call pon um fuh help tote de pole and de bresh, him mek scuse, say him wife berry sick and him bleege fuh tay home an nuss um.
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	prommus	prommus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	tote	tote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat	_	_
17	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	compound	_	_
20	bresh	bresh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
23	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
24	scuse	scuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	conj	_	_
33	bleege	bleege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	tay	tay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
36	home	home	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	nuss	nuss	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Rabbit prommus fuh | togedder |  |  |  | mek *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | present | um fuh |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **tote** | infinitive | um fuh *not said here* | pole and de bresh |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Theme |
| 4 | **scuse** | infinitive | togedder *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | togedder *not said here* | togedder |  |  |  | wife berry  sick bleege fuh tay  a nuss um *obj* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme berry=Manner |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/54/)
- next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/56/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/)