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title: De ting come ter Buh Wolf yez, an eh sen fuh Buh Rabbit. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De ting come ter Buh Wolf yez, an eh sen fuh Buh Rabbit. Who acts: De ting. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 47

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De ting come ter Buh Wolf yez, an eh sen fuh Buh Rabbit.

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**Who acts:** De ting · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** ter Buh Wolf

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De ting), 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:pg76586:6:47
# text = De ting come ter Buh Wolf yez, an eh sen fuh Buh Rabbit.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	compound	_	_
2	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	yez	yez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sen	sen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | De ting | ter Buh Wolf and a eh sen  Buh Rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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