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title: Buh Rabbit gone ter Buh Wolf, an eh tell um yes, him hab plan fuh cl… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Rabbit gone ter Buh Wolf, an eh tell um yes, him hab plan fuh clear de fiel er Groun-mole, an dat him wunt charge Buh Wolf nuttne but him board an lodgment wile him duh ketch an kill de Groun-mole. Who acts: ting, hab plan. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacula
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 48

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Buh Rabbit gone ter Buh Wolf, an eh tell um yes, him hab plan fuh clear de fiel er Groun-mole, an dat him wunt charge Buh Wolf nuttne but him board an lodgment wile him duh ketch an kill de Groun-mole.

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**Who acts:** ting, hab plan · **What happens:** plan, wunt, wile · **To what, where:** charge Wolf nuttne, ting, Buh gone ter

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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 (ting, hab plan), 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:pg76586:6:48
# text = Buh Rabbit gone ter Buh Wolf, an eh tell um yes, him hab plan fuh clear de fiel er Groun-mole, an dat him wunt charge Buh Wolf nuttne but him board an lodgment wile him duh ketch an kill de Groun-mole.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	39	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
18	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	compound	_	_
20	fiel	fiel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	er	er	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	16	appos	_	_
22	Groun	Groun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	wunt	wunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
31	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	conj	_	_
36	board	board	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	lodgment	lodgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
39	wile	wile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	42	discourse	_	_
42	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	_
45	de	de	PUNCT	``	_	48	punct	_	_
46	Groun	Groun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan** |  | ting |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wunt** | present | ting | charge Wolf nuttne |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wile** | infinitive | hab plan | ting |  |  |  | ketch *obj* | 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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