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title: Buh Wolf, him say Buh Rabbit berry kine, an eh gree fuh fine um. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf, him say Buh Rabbit berry kine, an eh gree fuh fine um. Who acts: Buh. 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 49

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Buh Wolf, him say Buh Rabbit berry kine, an eh gree fuh fine um.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** say, gree · **To what, where:** Rabbit berry kine, fine um · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh), 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:pg76586:6:49
# text = Buh Wolf, him say Buh Rabbit berry kine, an eh gree fuh fine um.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	kine	kine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	gree	gree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Buh | Rabbit berry kine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gree** | infinitive |  | fine um |  |  |  |  | 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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